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Activist on trial in China’s south as dissent crackdown widens

AFP

A activist in a grassroots group whose members have called for the overthrow of China’s ruling Communist Party went on trial Friday, his lawyer said, the latest step in Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on dissent. Liu Yuandong, a member of the Southern…