Index on Censorship » Tiananmen Square http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:19:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 China: activist jailed for nine years for “subversive writing” http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/12/china-chen-wei-subversion/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/12/china-chen-wei-subversion/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:17:17 +0000 Marta Cooper http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=31476 sentence to nine years’ imprisonment for inciting subversion over four essays he wrote and published online calling for freedom of speech. He was detained in February this year amid an intense government crackdown in response to anonymous online calls for protests in China inspired by the uprisings in the Middle East. Chen has previously served time in prison for participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/12/china-chen-wei-subversion/feed/ 2