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Yang, who is president of the Foundation for China in the 21st Century, was visiting China with another person’s passport in April 2002 when he was seized by the authorities while trying to board a plane. Until Tuesday’s meeting, no reliable proof of Yang??s safety had emerged...
...meeting came after renewed pressure on China from the international community. In early June, a United Nations committee declared Yang??s detention in violation of international law. And later that month, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning China for continuing to hold Yang...
Instead, the organization works to free “prisoners of conscience,” Genser said. In Yang??s case, Freedom Now is advocating only adherence to national and international...
Ramsey Professor of Political Economy Richard J. Zeckhauser ’62, who advised Yang??s thesis and last year organized a letter of support that eventually received the signatures of 34 Kennedy School Professors, said China’s handling of the case could eventually effect the country economically...
...Yang??s wife, Fu, could not be reached for comment...