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Rice tells China dissident jailing "disturbing"

BUCHAREST
Thu Apr 3, 2008 1:01pm EDT

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The United States regards China's jailing of an outspoken Buddhist dissident as "deeply disturbing", U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.

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Hu Jia, 34, was found guilty of "inciting subversion of state power" for criticizing the ruling Communist Party and sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail on Thursday.

"There is no doubt that this is a decision that is deeply disturbing to us and we are communicating that to the Chinese authorities," Rice told a news conference at a NATO summit in Bucharest.

(reporting by Matt Spetalnick, writing by Paul Taylor)
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