CHINA: ‘Super Vulgar Butcher” activist jailed for eight years

A prominent Chinese human rights activist, best known by the online alias Super Vulgar Butcher, has been jailed for eight years for subversion.  Wu Gan has been held since 2015, when authorities arrested or questioned hundreds of lawyers and activists. Mr Wu said he planned to appeal against the sentence, seen as the harshest against […]

A prominent Chinese human rights activist, best known by the online alias Super Vulgar Butcher, has been jailed for eight years for subversion. 

Wu Gan has been held since 2015, when authorities arrested or questioned hundreds of lawyers and activists.

Mr Wu said he planned to appeal against the sentence, seen as the harshest against a human rights activist since the crackdown began two years ago.

He is known for online campaigns designed to humiliate authorities.