Chinese Communist Party sentences Zhao Lianhai to 2 1/2 years in prison. For the heinous crime of attempting to inform Chinese parents about the toxic milk scandal:
Last November, he was arrested by the police and then charged in March with "creating a disturbance". His lawyer, Li Fangping, said the evidence for the charge had been that Mr Zhao had given a media interview on a public pavement, held a dinner in a restaurant for a dozen parents of other victims, and that he had held up a small sign in protest outside a trial of milk company executives responsible for the poisoning.
Yet another wicked reprobate. Whom Taiwan's Lien Chan will also refuse to speak on behalf of.