Ten years' jail for Chinese dissident

A LEADING Chinese dissident has been jailed for ten years for urging democratic reform of the one-party state.

By The Newsroom

Published 25th Mar 2011, 17:00 BST

Updated 25th Mar 2011, 21:50 BST

The Suining Intermediate People's Court in the southwestern province of Sichuan ruled that Liu Xianbin was guilty of "inciting subversion of state power", it emerged yesterday.