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"A Chinese court on Thursday handed down a four-and-a-half-year jail term to an outspoken economics professor who had estimated the high personnel costs of the Chinese government, finding him guilty of “incitement to subvert state power." https://t.co/UO9yZq2Ykm

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) September 1, 2023

"Yang Shaozheng expressed dissatisfaction with the judgment in court and filed an appeal," the group said. "The reason for the appeal was that this was an illegal trial."

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) September 1, 2023

"The actions he was charged with fell under freedom of speech and expression, and to criminalize a citizen for exercising those rights was a violation of the constitutional right to freedom of expression," the report paraphrased Yang's appeal as saying.

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) September 1, 2023

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— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) September 3, 2023

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— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) September 3, 2023