VIDEO: Wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang speaks out after her husband was sentenced to four and a half years.
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Detained Chinese human rights lawyer sentenced to 4 ½ yearsBEIJING (AP) — Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison on the charge of subversion of state power Monday, more than three years after he was detained in a wide-ranging crackdown on the legal profession. The No. 2 Intermediate Court in the northeastern city of Tianjin announced the sentence in an online statement, adding that Wang's political rights were also being withheld for five years. Rights groups immediately condemned the verdict, with Amnesty International China Researcher Doriane Lau calling it a 'gross injustice.'
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