His sentence was suspended for three years but he can no longer practise law. By the time he was last released, in August 2014, he was “utterly destroyed” by his time in jail, the advocacy group Freedom Now said in a statement.
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One of China’s most celebrated human rights lawyers has been given a suspended three-year prison sentence after being found guilty of “inciting ethnic hatred”.
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Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based independent researcher focused on human rights and criminal justice issues in China, noted the parallels between the two cases. State media described the sentence as “light”; together, the two charges carried a potential jail term of up to eight years.
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Pu had spent almost 19 months in detention before his trial last week, which lasted about three hours. The sentence will effectively end his legal career.
Amnesty International welcomed his release but said the guilty verdict was a gross injustice.
Pu, 50, was sentenced to three years in prison but given a three-year reprieve, said lawyer Shang Baojun.
However, the court did find Pu guilty, accepting the Communist Party’s assertion. “He will tell them face to face when time is right”.
Mr Pu has been released into “residential surveillance” – a form of detention used to keep Chinese dissidents away from the public eye – for 10 days before being allowed to return to his home in Beijing, according to his lawyer.
Pu was detained in May 2014 after he participated in a private commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and he was formally arrested that June. Pu was also scathing about the government’s policies in Tibet.
Pu’s trial held on December 14 attracted global media attention as Chinese police in plainclothes scuffled with diplomats and foreign journalists outside the courtroom.
But Pu had become representative of human rights freedom fighting. It seeped into the US presidential campaign as Sen.
Following the verdict in the morning, authorities were quick to censor discussion of Pu’s case online.
Pu has represented many well-known dissidents, including artist Ai Weiwei and activists of the “New Citizens’ Movement”, a group that has called on Chinese leaders to make their wealth public.
Fellow defense attorney Mo Shaoping said Pu had refused all along to plead guilty to the charges, although he had apologized for the rudeness of the tweets, some of which targeted individual politicians.
State news agency Xinhua said the court decided “to impose a lenient punishment [due to] the fact that the defendant, Pu Zhiqiang, truthfully confessed to the facts of the crime and positively pleaded guilty”.
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The court said that his posts – which were shared more than 2,500 times and received over 1,300 comments – “stirred ethnic hatred among Internet users, triggering an antagonistic mentality” and caused “psychological distress for victims and harmed their social reputation”.
