Wang Gongquan

While the well-known Chinese dissident Xu Zhiyong is facing five years in prison for his political activism, an associate of his — the wealthy Chinese businessman Wang Gongquan — who was accused of the same crimes was allowed out on bail because he confessed.

Wang Gongquan, a Chinese billionaire, has been arrested for supporting political and social reform in China. He was to be charged with “assembling a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.”