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...Yang??s Washington-based lawyer Jared Genser said that he was surprised at the decision, but he said that it was a personal choice for Yang...
Genser attributed Yang??s decision to a desire to gain control over his own situation...
...Yang??s wife, Harvard medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, has said that Yang was placed in solitary confinement with handcuffs until his hands became bloodied and infected following his attempts to protest his detention...
...Yang??s case has received worldwide attention from human rights groups and has raised concerns among U.S. officials in Washington about China’s human rights record. Sixty-seven members of Congress sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao April 26—the two-year anniversary of Yang??s arrest—requesting that he be released...
...have seen the reports and we are disappointed with this decision,” said Steve Pike, a spokesperson at the State Department, which has been trying to secure Yang??s release. “We have repeatedly called on Chinese officials to release him and we will continue to do so. We note that he had been detained without conviction for more than two years, which is against China’s own laws...