Chinese blogger given 6.5 years for 'rumour-mongering'
Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2014 - A Chinese blogger known for criticising the ruling Communist Party was sentenced Wednesday to six-and-a-half years in jail, state media said, as authorities pursue a crackdown on online "rumours". Dong Rubin - a businessman known to his 50,000 online followers by the alias "Bianmin", or frontier person - had long discomfited officials in the southwestern province of Yunnan on issues rangin ... more
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