A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced lawyer Zhou Shifeng, former managing partner of Beijing-based Fengrui Law Firm, to seven years in prison for political subversion. On the same day, Communist Party legal chief Meng Jianzhu met with a delegation of top U.S. judges to discuss the country’s judicial reform.
According to state-run Xinhua News Agency, Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court agreed with the prosecutor and found Zhou guilty of subverting state power. In a rare case, the sentencing was announced on the same day of a public trial attended by 40 odd lawyers, reporters and members of the public, Xinhua reported. The news wire also said that Zhou’s family members were not present per his own request. Other news reports said Zhou’s friends and family members, and news outlets not approved by the government, were barred from observing.
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