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China jails activist on property damage charges Kate Heneroty at 10:29 AM ET [JURIST] Chen Guangcheng [HRW case timeline], a blind Chinese human rights legal activist, was sentenced Thursday to four years and three months in prison for damaging property and "organizing a mob to disturb traffic." Chen supporters have said, however, that the charges were fabricated and he was actually arrested for reporting complaints of government mandated abortions and forced sterilizations [TIME feature] to comply with the country's one-child policy. Link | 
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