Former Editor at State-Run Newspaper Gets 13 Years for Bribery

A former editor working for Communist Party's official newspaper People’s Daily has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined 1.4 million yuan ($219,078) after being found to have both accepted and offered bribes worth 3 million yuan each, according to the court document seen by Caixin.

Ding Ting, a former director at the editorial center of the People’s Daily’s bureau in Haikou, South China’s Hainan province, was also deprived of political rights for three years, the First Intermediate People’s Court of Hainan Province ruled Monday.