Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic/Files
BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's most outspoken human rights lawyers has been charged with inciting ethnic hatred, a Beijing prosecutor said on Friday, the latest development in a case that has drawn censure from the West.
Pu Zhiqiang, 49, has also been indicted for "picking quarrels and provoking troubles", charges that a string of political dissidents, including lawyers, activists and journalists, have faced.
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