Chinese legal activist’s girlfriend charged with inciting subversion of state power

By Guo Rui

The girlfriend of the prominent Chinese legal activist Xu Zhiyong is facing trial for “inciting the subversion of state power”, according to an indictment issued by prosecutors.Xu, a former lawyer, is one of China’s most well known and vocal legal activists and is being held in Linyi, a city in the eastern province of Shandong, awaiting trial for “subversion of state power”.His girlfriend Li Qiaochu has also been in detention since February last year. An indictment issued last month alleged…

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