China's rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (L) attends a court session in Beijing in this still image from a December 14, 2015 video. REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV
BEIJING (Reuters) - A court convicted one of China's most prominent rights lawyers on Tuesday of "inciting ethnic hatred" with posts criticising the government, handing down a suspended sentence that means he avoids jail but will not practise law again.
Activists said the three-year suspended sentence for Pu Zhiqiang would serve as a strong reminder to other rights lawyers that the Communist Party, currently engaged in a severe clampdown on dissent, would brook no challenge to its rule.
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