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...Genser said that since Yang was taken into custody on April 26, 2002, Chinese authorities have not provided information “to anyone on the outside...
...campaign has attracted the attention and support of major political figures. The website for Freedom Now, the non-profit organization of which Genser is the president, lists the names of such prominent politicians as Massachusetts’ Democratic Senators John Kerry and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56, National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, and Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers...
House Resolution 199, which also calls for his release, is currently before the House International Relations Committee, Genser said, and has been signed by 43 members of Congress...
...Genser said that the body which gave the opinion, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, aims for “discretion, objectivity, impartiality and independence.” France, Algeria, Paraguay, Hungary and Iran have representatives on the working group...
According to Genser, the group consists of some countries that “do not have, shall we say, the most prominent human rights record,” but he said that this may add credibility to the decision...