**Leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been jailed for 11 years for “inciting subversion of state power”, after a trial condemned in the West.**The trial follows Mr Liu’s co-authorship of a document last year calling for political reform.
The EU, US and human rights groups have denounced the trial as political, but China accused them of meddling.
Western diplomats and journalists were barred from the courthouse when the trial began on Wednesday.
The BBC’s Michael Bristow in Beijing says the sentence shows China does not want anyone to challenge its authority.
Mr Liu is a prominent government critic and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests.
A writer and former university professor, he has been in jail since 2008, after being arrested for writing a document known as Charter 08.
The charter called for greater freedoms and democratic reforms in China, including an end to Communist one-party rule.