The head of a Chinese law firm at the centre of an unprecedented crackdown on rights lawyers has been given a seven-year prison sentence for subversion, a court announced on Thursday.
Zhou Shifeng, 51, was director of the Fengrui law firm when police detained about 250 lawyers and activists in July 2015, in a campaign that human rights organisations say has had a chilling effect on civil society.
While most of those rounded up were eventually released, Mr Zhou and three other lawyers were tried this week in the port city of Tianjin on charges of subversion, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
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