Six years in prison for website editor
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A Chinese activist accused of posting subversive articles on the Internet was sentenced to six years in prison for defaming the government, state media said.
The New China News Agency said Zhang Jianhong was the former editor in chief of a Chinese website called Aegean Sea and had written articles that defamed the Chinese government and amounted to agitation aimed at toppling the government.
The sentence comes amid a government campaign to tighten control over China’s media and the Internet.
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