CHINA-POLITICS-RIGHTS

Yan Xin (L) and Ge Yongxi (R), lawyers for activist Wu Gan known by the online pseudonym "Super Vulgar Butcher", sit at a hotel after Wu was sentenced at a court in Tianjin on December 26, 2017. A Chinese court in Tianjin sentenced an activist known by the online pseudonym "Super Vulgar Butcher" to eight years in prison on December 26 after he refused to plead guilty to charges of "subverting state power". / AFP PHOTO / JOANNA CHIU