China jails veteran activist Chen Xi for 10 years
Found on Global Post on Monday, 26 December 2011
The sentence comes just days after China sentenced another Tiananmen activist, Chen Wei, to 9 years in prison. Wei was one of hundreds of dissidents who were held by Chinese police earlier this year in order to to prevent the "Jasmine Revolution," a series of planned protests inspired by the Arab Spring.
Human rights groups have accused Beijing of cracking down on activists under the cover of the Christmas holidays so that they would not receive as much attention from diplomats or media, BBC News reported.
So many oppressive regimes have seen their revolutions this year, so maybe China will be next on the list. It looks like more and more people speak up and the regime there cannot use endless violence to silence them all. Not while they are trying to be accepted as a global player. Markets don't care about human rights, but luckily consumers do.