BEIJING: A Chinese court has condemned a Hong Kong publisher who planned to release a dissident's book about President Xi Jinping to 10 years in jail, his lawyer said Thursday.
Yao Wentian, 73, was given the sentence for smuggling on Wednesday by the Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court, one of his lawyers Ding Xikui told AFP.
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