Defense for the the rapper and members of a book club now behind bars say they’ll appeal the sentences ranging between two-and-a-half and eight-and-a-half years.

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Amnesty International’s Deprose Muchena says the 17 activists and the rapper have been wrongly convicted in a deeply politicized trial.

Adding that they are the victims of a government determined to intimidate anyone who dares to question its repressive policies.

Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation says 17  young men and women have been punished for holding a book discussion about the nonviolent resistance tactics of heroes like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

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