Du Daobin’s sentence confirmed on appeal

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Du Daobin’s sentence confirmed on appeal

Reporters Without Borders protested today against the recent confirmationnof a three-year prison sentence suspended for four years imposed on cyber-dissident Du Daobin on 11 June.

“Placing him under house arrest for that time is a subtle punishment because he risks being thrown in jail if he starts criticising the regime again,” it said.

The official Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted the supreme people’s court of the Hubei region of central China as ruling the original sentence was based on “clear facts and sufficient evidence.”

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Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

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