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Fifteen months of detention in Beijing peaked Monday as Yang Jianli, a pro-democracy activist based in Cambridge, was put on trial by Chinese authorities for espionage and visa violations...
...Yang voluntarily returned to China to support the demonstrators. "He knew that something major was happening, and he couldn't bear the thought of not being a part of it," says Fu. The killings he witnessed firsthand became a part of him. Yang returned to the U.S. a political activist. He wrote prolifically about the massacre. He decided to pursue a second Ph.D. in political economy at Harvard. He testified before Congress and spoke at numerous international human-rights conferences. Still, he talked constantly of returning to China. He neither sought political asylum nor applied for U.S. citizenship. When...
...crowd of about 50 gathered Tuesday night at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan to watch the scene from “The Other Story of King Kong,” a performance hosted by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), a five-year-old student activist group of which Harvard’s Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) is a founding member...
...diplomat in Bangkok. "They did everything but blindfold him," says the diplomat. "He had no idea where he was." Razali initially told reporters that Suu Kyi was in good spirits, but later said that she was being held in poor conditions. Meanwhile, her vice chairman in the NLD, veteran activist Tin Oo, was reported to have suffered a serious head injury in the fracas in May, although the Red Cross has been able to see him and confirmed that he is still alive...
...Even if you accept them on face value as being true, it’s just not the kind of thing anyone would see as rising to the level of espionage,” Genser said. “It’s the work of a pro-democracy activist...