SHANGHAI — Veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu was jailed for seven years on Friday on charges of leaking state secrets to a foreign website. Gao, 71, is a long-time reform activist who was jailed from 1989 through 1990, and later spent six years in jail in the 1990s for leaking state secrets. The current charge is…

A Chinese court has sentenced a 71-year-old female journalist to seven years in jail for leaking state secrets, in a case seen by rights groups as part of a crackdown on government critics. Gao Yu, named one of the International Press Institute’s 50 “world press heroes” in 2000, “illegally provided state secrets to foreigners”, Beijing’s No…