China’s first ‘cyber-dissident’ whose website reported on sensitive topics including human rights, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for leaking state secrets.
Huang Qi ran a website called 64 Tianwang, named after the 1984 Tianenmen Square crackdown.
Deputy director of research at the Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Frances Eve, stated his sentence sends a strong signal to others documenting abuses and will make it harder to know about the human rights abuses going on inside of China.