Legal experts said the 11-year prison term, the lengthiest handed down for subversion in at least a decade, was intended to send a signal to other dissidents that Chinese leaders would tolerate no challenge to the Communist Party’s 60-year control of state power.
China’s state-controlled news media have made no mentioned of Mr. Liu’s arrest, trial or sentencing. The government news agency Xinhua issued a statement after Mr. Liu’s sentencing declaring that the government had followed Chinese legal procedures in the case and that it had protected Mr. Liu’s rights.
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