An appeal court in southern China has ordered the retrial of a lawyer originally sentenced to a four-year prison term, upending a case that had attracted widespread concern among the country's legal community.
Liu Yao had been representing villagers embroiled in a land dispute with local officials in Dongyuan county, Guandong province. They claimed their land had been requisitioned for a hydropower project without due process and without proper compensation.
Last December, however, Mr Liu was detained for allegedly inciting a protest in which county officials said construction materials valued at Rmb50,000 ($7,300) had been destroyed.
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