The trial and imprisonment last week of Liu Xiaobo, a scholar and human rights activist, was eerily reminiscent of another trial 72 years ago, that of Shen Junru, a legal scholar who went on to become the first president of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China.
While Mr. Shen was 52 years old when he was tried on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Mr. Liu was 53 when he was charged with “inciting subversion of state power.”
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