Beijing lawyer given lighter punishment on appeal in mob trial

Beijing lawyer Li Zhuang was sentenced to a year and a half Tuesday, reversing an earlier sentence that he appealed, for giving false evidence and encouraging others to give false evidence in an organized crime gang trial in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. At the first trial in early January, 48-year-old Li was sentenced to two years and a half by the Jiangbei District People's Court ...