Shang Baojun

The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers, on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble, lasted just three hours today, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the Beijing court.

Pu Zhiqiang, one of China's most well-known human rights lawyers, was tried today on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", in the country's most high-profile human rights trial this year.

A Chinese court upheld a conviction today against a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website but reduced her jail sentence by two years in a case criticised by the West and rights groups.

The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers, on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble, lasted just three hours today, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the Beijing court.

Pu Zhiqiang, one of China's most well-known human rights lawyers, was tried today on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", in the country's most high-profile human rights trial this year.

A Chinese court upheld a conviction today against a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website but reduced her jail sentence by two years in a case criticised by the West and rights groups.