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A court in the city of Chengdu convicted and sentenced activist Tan Zuoren to five years in prison. Tan’s attorney Pu Zhiqiang reported the verdict, although officials at the Chengdu courthouse did not confirm it. Tan’s lawyer says his client was charged with inciting subversion of state power because of comments he made about the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. Roseann Rife, with the human rights group Amnesty International, says her organization strongly disagrees with the court verdict.