Dissident Sentenced in China, Group Says
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BEIJING — A Chinese dissident has been sentenced to three years in a labor camp because of a letter he wrote to parliament about unemployment, a Hong Kong-based human rights group said Friday.
Yang Qinheng, 44, was arrested Feb. 26 and began his sentence the next day, the Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said.
The Shanghai-based dissident was being held in a reform-through-labor camp under a form of administrative detention that does not require a formal trial, the statement said.
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