Zeng Feiyang, director of the Guangdong Panyu Migrant Workers Center, talks on his phone during an interview in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, January 20, 2015. REUTERS/Alexandra Harney
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese court handed down a three-year suspended jail sentence for a prominent labour activist based in the southern city of Guangzhou on Monday, while two other defendants were given 18-month suspended sentences, a lawyer and rights group said.
Zeng Feiyang, director of the Panyu Migrant Workers Centre in the city, had been detained for "disturbing social order" in December as part of a crackdown on labour rights defenders in southern China, home to tens of thousands of factories.
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