Zhou Yongjun, a former Tiananmen Square protest student leader, was sentenced to "nine years in prison on the charge of attempted fraud" last Friday.

Zhou's call for China's communist party leaders to listen to students' demands for political reform and an end to corruption "by kneeling on the steps of the Great Hall of the People" gained him great attention during the Tiananmen protests in 1989.

Zhou, who had been living in the U.S., was sent to mainland China where he was tried on fraud charges after trying to enter Hong Kong to visit his elderly parents. [Read more]