Labour rights activists received lighter than expected sentences in trials in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Monday, as workers in the country’s manufacturing and export powerhouse contend with shifting political winds.
Activists affiliated with the Guangdong Panyu Migrant Workers’ Centre, which mediated with factories on behalf of striking workers, faced charges of “gathering a crowd to disturb social order” and embezzlement after being rounded up late last year.
They received suspended jail sentences of one to three years, meaning they are in effect free but on probation.
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