China: Prominent rights lawyer sentenced to five years in prison

New York [US], March 24 (ANI): A court in China sentenced the prominent human rights lawyer Xie Yang to five years in prison on March 23, 2026, on politically motivated charges of ‘inciting subversion of state power,’ as per the Human Rights Watch on Tuesday. It urged the Chinese government to immediately quash the conviction, which followed serious procedural violations and years of persecution, and free Xie unconditi