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...devout Baptist, today's verdict was a dissatisfying conclusion--or disappointing twist--to a five month ordeal that has been marked by prayer with his family, a month-long hunger strike and the study of several languages...
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...
...weeks before Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport closed in 1998. I'd filed a feature for a British newspaper about the spanking new airport at Chek Lap Kok and had an afternoon free. Normally I would have gone shopping for presents, but was spared that dreadful ordeal as I'd heard about a crazed band of plane spotters who gathered at Kai Tak to watch the planes land...
...residents into silence. On the night of June 22, Cheng says, he and his children awoke to the sound of splitting wood. He says hundreds of police stormed Wenlou, breaking down doors, attacking villagers with cattle prods and dragging some out of their beds and into police cars. The ordeal was repeated the next night, says Cheng. In all, about 100 people were taken away. "These attacks were so sudden," Cheng says with bewilderment. "All we were trying to do was to answer the question of what will happen to the children when the adults die. Can you really...
...says that the fact that charges have been filed and a trial date finally set—after the hunger strike which Okhotin imposed on himself until June 16, when the trial date was announced—does not signal an end to Okhotin’s contorted legal ordeal...