Chinese dissident Chen XI is in this o.j. handout photo released by his family on the 26 December 2011 seen. A court in China sentenced a dissident, veteran Chen XI on Monday to 10 years in prison for subversion, his wife said, Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was arrested one of the most severe sentences for political charges since two years ago.
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By Chris Buckley
BEIJING (Reuters) - a court in China sentenced a dissident, veteran Chen XI on Monday to 10 years in prison for subversion, his wife said, Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was arrested one of the most severe sentences for political charges since two years ago.
The Court in Guiyang, China, Chen tried quickly declared him for "inciting subversion of State power" and said that he deserves a hard set of ten years in prison, said his wife, Zhang Qunxuan, Reuters by phone.
"The judge was a big crime, which had a malign influence and he has been a repeated offender," said Zhang by telephone.
"The Government wants democracy and progress, you need people who speak their negative view," she said.
"To undermine you - can he?" Has he any army? He has a police force? Has he courts? With a piece of paper and a pen he can to undermine you? "Are you so fragile?"
Chen XI, 57, 36 articles denounced criticism of the ruling Communist Party, which he on overseas Chinese websites, said Zhang. The process took about two and half hours, she added.
Chen said that he would not address, because it would make no sense, said Zhang.
An official in Guiyang intermediate people's Court telephoned by Reuters declined to give any information or give contact details for the scope of the Court, the Chen, tries, also known as Chen Youcai.
"Inciting subversion" is a charge levied, frequently used, dissidents to punish, and China's Party toboggan dishes rarely found in favour of the accused in studies, in particular for political charges.
Chiefs put Communist Party if many years focusing on political challenges should increase defense for a guided tour of the party passed end next year.
"" "Severe punishment the Chinese Government is the clear choice of response to the protests spread from home and in many parts of the world: it is determined,"The monkey kill the chicken to scare"," Renee Xia, the International Director of the Chinese defenders of human rights, an advocacy group said in remarks by e-Mail.
"The chicken to scare the monkeys, killing" is a Chinese proverb hold singling out victims for rough treatment to others of.
"PAY-BACK"
The long sentence comes days after an other dissident-Chen Wei of Sichuan province, Chinas--jailed for nine years similar because of "inciting subversion." Chen is a family name in China, and the two men are not related.
Liu Xiaobo, 2010 was awarded Nobel Peace Prize, was sentenced on 25 December 2009, and imprisoned for 11 years for inciting subversion. In March of this year, fees jailed dissidents Liu Xianbin for 10 years on subversion.
This month, a Beijing sent a China's best known rights lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, back in prison, although he never appears mysterious confinement mainly escaped have provided Court.
Beijing quiet Christmas chose for these studies as it tried to avoid international attention and diplomatic censure, said Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher on China for New York-based human rights watch, an organization.
"It not the character is a confident Government which believes that it has a strong argument against a specific person," he said by telephone. "It's pay-back for decades up to the Government."
Police kept hundreds of dissidents, human rights activists and protest Organizer in a crackdown on dissent this year, when the Communist Party of anti-authoritarian revolts in the Arab world inspired to prevent wanted the protests.
Chen XI, imprisonment was released but arrested only last month after his release from a week-long by his campaign for independent candidates to places in party people's Congress assemblies, win, Zhang said.
Chen is a former soldier and factory workers that prison was for three years for his support of 1989 pro-democracy protests which ended after troops struck down, said demonstrations his wife.
Again, he was imprisoned in 1996, but since his release an organizer of human rights was a civic forum in Guiyang in 2005.
China uses a "firewall" of Internet filters and blocks to prevent that citizens read websites abroad is regarded as politically unacceptable. With the technology to break through obstacles and uncensored Web sites publish but many activist.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Hong Lei a daily briefing that he don't know about Chen XI conviction. China a "country of the rule of law" is added to Hong.
(Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard and Reuters TV;) (Editing by Robert Birsel)
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