China - Sentence given to Chinese activist Liu Xianbin “extremely harsh”

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday she was deeply concerned about the extremely harsh sentence handed down to Chinese activist Liu Xianbin on Friday, and noted the worrying increase in imprisonments, house arrests and other restrictions on lawyers and human rights defenders in China over the past 18 months.
Liu Xianbin was sentenced to10 years in prison on the charge of "incitement to subvert state power" after writing a series of articles calling for democratic reforms.
"The extremely harsh sentencing of Liu Xianbin confirms the severe limits being imposed on freedom of expression in China, and is another example of the escalating clampdown on the activities of human rights defenders," Pillay said. “It runs counter to recent statements by China’s leadership recognizing the need for reform.” (...)

The article:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10899&LangID=E

From UN Human Rights website:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10928&LangID=E

Informazione di base:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cina

http://www.mondimpresa.it/infoflash/scheda.ASP?st=720

Human Rights in China:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/AsiaRegion/Pages/CNIndex.aspx
http://www.amnesty.it/Rapporto-Annuale-2010/Cina
http://www.hrw.org/asia/china
http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2011/china

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Sull'argomento:

http://www.terranews.it/news/2011/04/la-spietata-repressione-del-dragone-cinese

http://www.minerbioelavocedelcittadino.com/2011/04/comunismo-cinese-2011.html