Excerpted from AFP (via Google News):
Liu was arrested on June 25 and sentenced to one year of "re-education through labour" for "disturbing public order," the New York-based Human Rights in China said. Police have refused to comment on Liu's case.
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For more information on this issue:
- HRIC Statement: "Rights Crackdown Intensifies a Month before the Games," July 8, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/63047;
- HRIC Case Update: "Detained Rights Activist Huang Qi Formally Arrested," July 18, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/63525;
- HRIC Statement: "Rights Crackdown Intensifies a Month before the Games," July 08, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/63047;
- HRIC Case Update: "Huang Qi Denied Access to Counsel," June 24, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/60742;
- HRIC Press Release: "Rights Activist Huang Qi Detained on Suspicion of Holding State Secrets," June 16, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/56586;
- HRIC Press Release: "Human Rights in China Condemns the Detention of Huang Qi by Police in Chengdu," June 14, 2008, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/56408.