Chen Pinlin was sentenced by a Shanghai court on Monday following a three-hour trial behind closed doors, a person familiar with the case told CNN. The 33-year-old was convicted of “picking ...

A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 "white paper" demonstrations against China's COVID restrictions was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Shanghai court this week, his ...

A Shanghai court has sentenced Chinese director Chen Pinlin to three and a half years in prison for his documentary film on the 'white paper' protests that erupted across China in late 2022.

“Chen Pinlin, who has been arrested for more than a year, has been treated extremely inhumanely in the detention centre,” it said on Tuesday. open image in gallery File Chinese policemen ...

A judge sentenced Chen Pinlin, 33, to jail for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" in a closed-door trial on Monday, Daniel Fang, who handled Chen's case before leaving China last year ...

The 2022 protests against Covid lockdown and subsequent crackdown on people marked a rare show of dissent in China ...

Chen Pinlin, who is known by his stage name “Plato”, was first detained on 29 November 2023 and was formally arrested on 5 January 2024 by the Shanghai police for releasing his documentary ...

BEIJING – A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 “white paper” demonstrations against China’s Covid-19 restrictions was sentenced to 3½ years in prison by a Shanghai court ...