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Five years' imprisonment for Chinese MeToo activist

» Updated: 16 July 2024, 16:10

» Published: 14 June 2024

Five years' imprisonment for Chinese MeToo activist
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The journalist Huang Xueqin has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for inciting subversive activities by a court in Chinese Canton (Guangzhou).

She was one of the driving forces when the Chinese #MeToo movement took off at the beginning of 2018. Huang then collected testimonies from victims of sexual harassment.

Labor rights activist Wang Jianbing, who was also a supporter of the #MeToo movement, has been sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment for the same offence.

Human rights organisations are critical of the verdicts. Amnesty International's China chief Sarah Brooks says in a statement that the Chinese government has made up excuses to see the convicted individuals' work as a threat.

"These malicious and completely baseless verdicts show how frightened the Chinese government is of the emerging wave of activists who dare to speak out to protect others' rights," she says.

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