2015-12-03
Guo Feixiong (R) during a gathering with Gao Zhisheng (L) in Beijing, Jan. 6, 2006.
AFP
A prominent Chinese rights activist jailed for six years by a court in the southern city of Guangzhou last week has filed a formal appeal, saying the judgment against him is “illegal and runs counter to natural justice.”
Yang Maodong, better known by his pseudonym Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” at a hearing in the provincial capital Guangzhou along with two co-defendants on Friday.
Fellow activists Liu Yuandong and Sun Desheng were also jailed by Continue reading