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Authorities in China are stepping up charges against two prominent activists with the New Citizens Movement detained after an informal gathering of dissidents in the southeastern port city of Xiamen in December 2019.
Police are now investigating movement founder Xu Zhiyong and human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi for subversion of state power, rather than under the lesser charge of incitement to subvert state power. Subversion of state power carries a minimum jail term of 10 years, with no upper limits on the severity of the sentence, where a defendant is judged to have played a leading role in the events used as evidence.
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