Word: yang
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...intensive efforts to secure the release of activist Yang Jianli, who received a doctorate from the Kennedy School of Government and has been detained in China for more than a year, received the backing of the United Nations (U.N.) yesterday...
...committee of the U.N. Human Rights Commission ruled that China has violated international law by holding Yang for a prolonged period without a lawyer, a trial or any formal charges, according to an opinion made public yesterday...
...Yang was banned from China for his role as an organizer of the Tiananmen Square demonstration of 1989, and was arrested last year 10 days after he arrived in the country to research labor unrest...
...Yang has not been heard from since he made calls to his wife and a reporter within 24 hours of his initial detention...
...original FM article, which published a censored version of the chart with names blocked out, Watkins and Yang used the pseudonyms Jane and Lucy. But no one in Pennypacker, or at least those in the know, had any doubt as to the identities of the participants in the chart. Among the 26 people on the floor, the historic, Magna Carta-like document counted a whopping 11 cases of floorcest. Of course, these centered around specific players: the 15 “freaks,” 11 “Superfreaks” and one individual identified...