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Peng Lifa, who has been forcibly disappeared for more than two years, has now been handed a sentence of nine years on charges including “arson” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Peng was detained on October 13, 2022, after hanging banners on a Beijing bridge criticizing Xi Jinping.
“Peng’s so-called ‘crime’ was nothing more than expressing views Chinese authorities don’t like, but Chinese and international law guarantee free speech. This sentence is an indictment not of Peng Lifa, but of Xi Jinping’s profoundly politicized legal system,” said Sophie Richardson, Co-Executive Director of CHRD [Chinese Human Rights Defenders].
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