Suspended jail sentence for China protester
Zhai Yanmin was convicted of "subverting state power" for acts including waving banners and shouting slogans in four protests since 2014, the official Xinhua news agency cited a court in the northern city of Tianjin as saying. Zhai was held more than a year ago in a sweeping crackdown which saw more than 200 lawyers who had taken on civil rights cases considered sensitive by China's ruling Communist Party and activists held for questioning. China's President Xi Jinping has overseen a tightening of controls on civil society since assuming power in 2012, closing avenues for legal activism which emerged in recent years.