This file photo taken on September 24, 2019 shows Chinese pig farmer and billionaire Sun Dawu posing at a feed warehouse in Hebei, outside Beijing. – A Chinese court sentenced agricultural tycoon Sun Dawu to 18 years in jail on July 28, 2021 for a catalogue of crimes including “provoking trouble” after the outspoken billionaire and grassroots rights supporter was tried in secret.
The charismatic Sun built one of China’s biggest private agriculture companies with his wife from a few chickens and pigs in the 1980s. Video footage shared by his lawyers on Tuesday showed tight security outside the courtroom, with convoys of police vehicles and plainclothes officers. Sun during the trial described going on hunger strike and experiencing “misery beyond words” during his time in detention, according to the account.The Dawu Group employed over 9,000 people before Sun’s assets were seized by the state and employees forced out of work after Sun’s detention in November.
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