Chinese Right Activist Wang Lihong was sentenced to nine months in prison for creating disturbances by a court in Southeast China's Fujian province on Friday. The 56 year-old activist, who took active part in the pro-democracy demonstration of 1989 at Beijing's Tiananmen Sqaure, was accused of collecting a crowd and blocking the traffic.
During the trial, Wang told the court that she was innocent, and her son Qi Jianxiang told her supporters and the reporters who were present outside the court that the sentence given to her mother was unfair because her mother was fighting for people's rights.
She has been in detention for the past six months since her detention last April when she organised a demonstration against a government crackdown on activist and protesters. The judicial sentence suggests that she has to serve three months in detention.
The nine-months sentence is light because Chinese law allows to give years of imprisonment for the charge of disturbing public order, which is often used against anti-government protesters.
A small crowd was collected outside the court room when the case was being tried. She has also attracted support from several intellectuals including Ai Wei, the dissident artist, who was recently released from the jail.
A report quoted an Amnesty International official as saying that the trial is a sham and she should be released immediately.
News reported by AR for Newsvision - Online News Paper
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