A female police gestures as she asks journalists to leave from the vicinity of the courthouse where the closed-door trial of Gao Yu is being held in Beijing November 21, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
BEIJING (Reuters) - An outspoken Chinese journalist went on trial on Friday accused of revealing state secrets as a court rejected an appeal by a prominent Uighur scholar whose life sentence on separatism charges had sparked an outcry from the West.
The closed-door Beijing trial of Gao Yu, 70, accused of providing state secrets to foreign contacts lasted just four hours. Gao, well known for her critical articles of government leaders, faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if found guilty.
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