NEW YORK: Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang has been sentenced to five years in prison for “inciting subversion,” the US group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said late on Monday. Xie, who has defended Christian and pro-democracy activists, was detained in January 2022.
The 54-year-old faced years of surveillance by authorities over remarks judged critical of the Chinese government and ruling Communist Party. The Changsha Intermediate People’s Court in central China sentenced Xie on Monday to five years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power,” HRW said in a statement published in New York the same day.
