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Yang’s trial was closed to public observers on the grounds that it concerned state secrets, said Jared Genser, a family lawyer and KSG classmate of Yang’s. In addition, Genser said, the judge confiscated all evidence at the trial’s close and forbade Yang’s Chinese lawyer, Mo Shaoping, from disclosing any information about the day’s events to the public—including the text or contents of an extensive statement reportedly delivered by Yang at his trial. If he violated this order, Genser said Mo could have...
...It’s a transparent attempt by the Chinese government to silence Yang Jianli,” Genser said...
...added that it was unusual for the judge to have allowed Yang to finish his defense uninterrupted—but said the confiscation of the evidence was also remarkable. Genser said apparently contradictory actions like these—which he attributed to possible internal divides within the ruling party—have characterized the Chinese government’s treatment of Yang since his capture...
...Genser said that it was hard to predict whether Yang’s ordeal of uncertainty would in fact be ended by a verdict within the four to six weeks dictated by Chinese statutes...
...returning to China. He neither sought political asylum nor applied for U.S. citizenship. When his Chinese passport expired he attempted to renew it over and over again. But his activism had earned him banishment. "He desperately wanted to go back and try to effect political change," says Jared Genser, a Harvard classmate who is president of Freedom Now, a legal-advocacy group lobbying for Yang's release. In exile, Yang suffered from depression so severe that he was forced to drop out of school for a semester...