Chinese journalist and #Metoo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday on charges of "inciting subversion of state power" after she became a symbol of the country's stalled feminist movement.
She was sentenced alongside labor activist Wang Jianbing, who was handed three years and six months, a group of their supporters said on X.
Huang wrote on social media about her experience of workplace sexual harassment as a young journalist at a Chinese news agency, in the wake of the global #MeToo movement.
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