BEIJING: A Chinese human rights activist was on Friday given a three year suspended prison sentence for subversion, a court said -- the fourth such case this week as authorities crack down on dissent.

Christian activist Gou Hongguo had gone abroad to be trained in “subverting state power”, the Second Intermediate People’s Court in the northern city of Tianjin said on a verified social media account.

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