Xia Lin was sentenced in Beijing after being held in detention for two years, but human rights groups maintained the charges were fabricated: Xias real offense, they said, was his determination to fight injustice and refusal to publicly confess to his crimes against the Communist Party and Chines
"I was detained because of Occupy Central, and Xia Lin chose to stand up at the most dangerous time, when the atmosphere was the most intense," he said in a telephone interview. "He did the bravest thing, and now the government has imposed the crime of fraud onto him, stigmatized him and put him in