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Mon 11 Nov 2009China jails dissident for 3 years
A Chinese dissident who tried to help victims of last year's Sichuan earthquake was jailed for three years today on charges of illegally possessing state secrets, his wife said.
Huang Qi was convicted by a court in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in the nation's southwest where the earthquake on May 12th last year killed at least 80,000 people, including children crushed in schools that collapsed.
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