China sentenced a prominent artist whose works criticised former leader Mao Zedong to three years in prison on Tuesday for “insulting heroes”, a rights group said. Gao Zhen, 70, and his brother Gao Qiang gained fame in the early 2000s for art touching on sensitive political topics like the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square protests […]
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