Chen Pinlin was sentenced by a Shanghai court on Monday following a three-hour trial behind closed doors, a person familiar with the case told CNN. The 33-year-old was convicted of “picking ...

A Shanghai court has sentenced Chinese director Chen Pinlin to three and a half years in prison for his documentary film on the 'white paper' protests that erupted across China in late 2022.

A judge sentenced Chen Pinlin, 33, to jail for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" in a closed-door trial on Monday, Daniel Fang, who handled Chen's case before leaving China last year ...

A Shanghai court convicted Chen Pinlin, born in 1991, even though he had signed a plea bargain for a two-year sentence over “Urumqi Middle Road”, a video he made and posted on YouTube in 2023 ...

Chen Pinlin was initially charged in early 2024 for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” over the release of his documentary, Not the Foreign Force. Mr Pinlin was handed down the sentence ...

The 2022 protests against Covid lockdown and subsequent crackdown on people marked a rare show of dissent in China ...