Chen Yunfei, a human rights activist and blogger from Sichuan province who has campaigned against environmental degradation, highlighted human rights abuses and spoken out on behalf of the families seeking justice for those killed in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment on December 3. A notice issued on December 3, 2021, by the People's Court of the Pidu District of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province it had "tried the case of the defendant Chen Yunfei for compulsory indecency and child molestation in a closed trial in accordance with the law, and publicly pronounced the sentence. The defendant Chen Yunfei was guilty of the crime of compulsory indecency. Sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 1 year and 6 months; committed child molestation, sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 3 years; combined punishment for several crimes, and decided to carry out fixed-term imprisonment of 4 years."
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