Headlines for February 09, 2010

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Chinese Court Sentences Earthquake Activist to Jail

A Chinese court has sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country’s massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail. Tan Zuoren was convicted of inciting subversion of state power. Tan had estimated at least 5,600 students died in the 2008 earthquake, many of them because of poorly built schools.

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