JINAN, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese intermediate court on Friday rejected a blind mob organizer's appeal and upheld a local court's decision to sentence Chen Guangcheng to more than four years in jail.

    The Intermediate People's Court in Linyi City, eastern Shandong Province, announced Chen's four years and three months jail term on Friday.

    Chen was convicted of damaging public property and organizing amob to disrupt traffic and pressurizing the government.

    A local court in Yinan county passed the sentence in November after first trial, and Chen appealed to the intermediate court, which held that the local court's decision had been based on facts and prevalent laws and the jail term had been meted out appropriately.

    During the retrial, the court had listened to the statement of Chen's lawyer and guaranteed Chen's rights to defend himself, the intermediate court said in a statement.

    An earlier report said Chen destroyed public facilities, including office windows, in February in the village of East Shigu to vent his anger at workers who were carrying out poverty-relief programs.

    In March, he organized a group of people to stop traffic for three hours and delayed more than 290 vehicles, including an ambulance that was carrying an expectant mother to hospital, it said.