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Chinese Court Sentences Dissidents

BEIJING (AP) - A court in northern China has sentenced two dissidents to jail terms of three and four years for subversion, a human rights group said Saturday.

Yu Dengqiang and Liu Jin, both members of the banned China Democracy Party, were sentenced Wednesday, two days before massive celebrations on Friday in Beijing for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic.

Yu was sentenced to four years, Liu to three, said the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China. They were tried in Zhangjiakou city in northern Hebei province and convicted of subverting state power, a charge already used to sentence other leaders of the China Democracy Party to jail, the Information Center said.

Both men were arrested June 8 and tried August 17, the group said. But the sentences were not passed down until Wednesday and their families only learned of them Saturday, the group said.

Yu, 37, and Liu, 30, have said they will not appeal, it said.



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