The guilty convict the innocent in China

A Chinese lawyer who defended residents forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for development was sentenced to two years in prison for obstructing official duties, her husband said.

Ni Yulan, 47, was arrested in April for allegedly assaulting a worker who along with police was trying to demolish her family's house in an old neighborhood in central Beijing, her husband Dong Jiqin said.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said it was Ni who was assaulted when one of the workers hit her on the head with a brick.

Dong said his wife was sentenced to two years in prison at a 2 1/2-hour, closed-door trial.

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Getting hit in the head by a brick and sent to jail for 'assaulting' the brick! And the Chinese wonder why they are laughed at worldwide!