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Ginger’s widow, author and activist Ann Fagan Ginger, says Gagnon’s letter is unsatisfactory...
...friend across the border in the economic boomtown of Shenzhen. That was Feb. 25, and he never got there. His frantic wife, Liu Yingli, rang the U.S. consulate, which assured her that her husband was alive but had been detained. More than a month later the former political activist remains in custody, and according to someone close to the family, the accusations against him are "very similar" to the espionage tag the government last week hung on researcher Gao Zhan, who has been held since Feb. 11. The latest detentions fit a pattern. A Chinese court last November sentenced Stanford...
...July on Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Summer Games. China has a history of timing the release of prominent prisoners to the political calendar. In 1995, it paved the way for First Lady Hillary Clinton to attend a United Nations conference in Beijing by freeing human rights activist and U.S. citizen Harry Wu. Two years later it freed dissident Wei Jingsheng just as President Clinton prepared his own trip. A last-second release of Li or Gao?or both?could give Washington political cover from the anti-China lobby to make the decisions Beijing wants...
...proper care, but prevent any new bears, owls, monkeys and snakes from being smuggled out of the wild and turned into entertainers. With the government shutdown, however, and no alternative employment offered, both children and bears will suffer. "You don't know who to feel worse about," says animal activist Bahar Dutt. "The animals or their owners...
Earlier this year, PSLM members joined with members of other campus activist groups to revive HarvardWatch-a student-monitoring group formed in the late 1980s...