'Gang of four' followers get prison sentences

February 6, 1981

Three leaders of a group of convicted saboteurs who worked for the convicted "gang of four" have been given long jail sentences for trying "to create chaos" in the province of Zhejiang, a report said. The radio broadcast from Nanjing said a court in the province sentenced the three to 10 to 15 years in prison for involvement in "a counterrevolutionary cli que and carrying out counterrevolutionary sabotage."