26-03-2019 12:44 via news.yahoo.com

China's ex-internet tsar handed 14-year jail sentence

A court in China sentenced the country's former head of internet censorship, Lu Wei, to 14 years in prison for bribery on Tuesday, as part of President Xi Jinping's ongoing anti-graft campaign.Lu, who was charged with accepting bribes from 2002 to 2017, was also fined 3 million yuan ($450,000), said the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court in eastern Zhejiang province.Lu, who oversaw a tightening of online censorship during his tenure at the Cyberspace Administration of China, was a fierce defende
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