A woman who was sentenced to death in China after being convicted of murdering her abusive husband received a two-year reprieve, which could become a life sentence with a possibility of parole.

A veteran Chinese journalist was jailed for seven years for leaking a document detailing the Communist Party’s resolve to target civil press freedom as a threat to its monopoly on power.

China’s highest court overturned a death sentence and ordered a retrial for a woman who killed and dismembered her abusive husband, a ruling welcomed by advocates of the country’s often-silent victims of domestic violence.