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Rights group: China sentences two prominent lawyers on 'farcical' charge

Legal scholar Xu Zhiyong during a meeting in Beijing, China, on July 17, 2009. [AP Photo]

Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison, Human Rights Watch said Monday, the latest in a crackdown by the ruling Communist Party on its critics.

The rights group said Xu Zhiyong, 50, was sentenced to 14 years and Ding Jiaxi, 55, was given 12 years in prison under the vague charge of "subversion of state power." Such proceedings are conducted under intense secrecy.

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