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Top Chinese journalist sentenced to seven years of jail for leaking state secrets

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Last Updated : Apr 18 2015 | 1:02 PM IST

A court in Beijing has sentenced a top Chinese journalist to seven years of jail for leaking a confidential paper to a foreign website.

According to BBC, the court in Beijing said that Gao Yu, 71, had "illegally provided state secrets to foreigners".

It is believed that the case is related to a document of a Communist Party strategy paper known as "Document No 9".

The paper is said to call for aggressive restrictions on democracy, civil society and the press.

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First Published: Apr 18 2015 | 12:54 PM IST

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