Ten jailed for detaining petitioners
(02-05 11:24)
A Beijing court has handed jail time to 10 people for illegally detaining petitioners, Xinhua news agency reported.
The court had heard that the ten people detained petitioners from central Henan province who traveled to Beijing, hoping to submit their complaints to the central government. But the petitions were often stopped by local government officials and locked them up in hostels.
The ten were sentenced to six months to two years.
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