China jails six for spreading 'cult' material

Four Chinese academics and two other people convicted of using the internet to spread material from the banned Falun Gong movement have been jailed for terms of up to 12 years, a human rights organisation says.

China jails six for spreading 'cult' material

Four Chinese academics and two other people convicted of using the internet to spread material from the banned Falun Gong movement have been jailed for terms of up to 12 years, a human rights organisation says.

Four of those jailed were faculty members at Beijing’s elite Tsinghua University, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said in a statement.

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