convictions of several activists for subverting State power are appropriate and reflect the authorities' heightened awareness of destabilizing forces Duke Dawson Patriots Jersey , especially as these activists had been organizing lawyers and petitioners, and forging links with overseas anti-China forces to push toward a "color revolution," experts said Thursday.


Zhou Shifeng, chief lawyer at Beijing-based Fengrui Law Firm, was convicted of subverting State power and sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday by the Second Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin, the Xinhua News Agency reported.


On Wednesday Sony Michel Patriots Jersey , Hu Shigen, the leader of an underground church, was also sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of the same crime at the Tianjin court.


Since 2009, Hu had used an illegal religious organization to attract illicit lawyers and paid petitioners to spread subversive thoughts and ideas, prosecutors said. He also sent a follower to receive anti-China training overseas.


The training camp also hosted separatists advocating the "independence" of China's Tibet Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It gave participants instructions on how to turn against the Communist Party of China and the Chinese authorities, Xinhua quoted Hu as saying during his trial.


He conspired and plotted to subvert State power with others Isaiah Wynn Patriots Jersey , including Zhou and Zhai Yanmin, and established the "systematic thinking, method and steps" to achieve it, Xinhua reported.


Zhai, described as an "illegal protest organizer" and an "unemployed Beijing resident," was handed a three-year sentence with a four-year reprieve on Tuesday Jordan Matthews Limited Jersey , Xinhua reported.


"What those convicted have in common is they were all found to have publicized subversive information that threatens national security, including organizing symposiums and seminars," said Hong Daode, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law.


"One can have different opinions or reasoning, which would not lead to criminal prosecutions. But if they express or hype opinions and theories that could jeopardize national security to the public, they will have crossed a legal boundary Jeremy Hill Limited Jersey ," Hong told the Global Times on Thursday.


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