Jailed China dissident released
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Alongside a Reuters report that 60 people in China have this year been “arrested or warned” for, “spreading rumours by SMS or on the Internet,” Yang Jianli, jailed for five years during which he, “endured physical and psychological torture,” is now home in America with his family, says the International Herald Tribune.
“Cut off, at times, from all human contact, he fell into despair. He was consumed with worry when his jailers hinted – falsely – that his wife and young son had been taken into custody,” says the story, going on:
“On Saturday, the Chinese democracy campaigner and Harvard graduate returned home at last to the United States. His wife, Christina Fu, a Harvard researcher, and his son, 12, greeted him at the Boston airport. The couple also has a 15-year-old daughter, who was traveling in China and saw her father after his release from prison.”
He was arrested in 2002 when he tried to enter China using a friend’s passport, says Voice of America, continuing:
“Yang acknowledges he entered China illegally, but he had been blacklisted from returning home because he was a leading activist in the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising.”
At a news conference yesterday, he thanked the international community for keeping up pressure for his release and for allowing him to return home, says the story, which also quotes him as saying:
“I’m here today, stronger than I have ever been, more determined than I ever thought possible, more convinced that the one-party system in China is fatally flawed and deeply heartened by the knowledge, especially after the four months I spent in Beijing since my release, that the democratization process in China is irreversible.”
Also See:
Reuters – China arrests or warns 60 for spreading rumours, August 22, 2007
International Herald Tribune – Freed from Chinese jails, dissident still speaks of hope, August 22, 2007
Voice of America – Chinese Dissident Says China’s One-Party System Is Fatally FlawedAugust 21, 2007
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