SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A former university professor who published letters to Chinese leaders and advocated multi-party democracy has been jailed for 10 years for "subversion of state power", a rights group said on Saturday.
The sentence was handed down on Guo Quan by a court in eastern coastal Jiangsu province at an especially sensitive time -- after China celebrates 60 years of Communist rule this month, 20 years after troops crushed pro-democracy protests in Bejing.
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