And turning to China.
A court in Beijing has sentenced a Chinese journalist convicted of leaking state secrets to seven years in jail.
Gao Yu was arrested last year for allegedly providing an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website.
The 71－year－old， who is a well－known anti－government activist， denies the charges.
Following the ruling， the European Union said the verdict raises concerns about the country′s human rights situation.
″The Delegation of the European Union to China is deeply concerned over the verdict of seven years imprisonment handed down to Gao Yu， veteran journalist Gao Yu， and this sentence has heightened our concern over the situation of human rights defenders in China， including bloggers and journalists， who have been prosecuted for expressing freely their views.″
Meanwhile， demonstrators in Hong Kong protested in the streets on Friday， shouting： ″Release Gao Yu ″
Human rights groups， including Amnesty International， have condemned the verdict as ″political persecution.″
