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Former Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student and pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli, imprisoned in China on espionage charges since April 2002, has decided to delay a hunger strike he intended to start last Wednesday...
...Yang changed his mind after hearing that his wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, objected to the strike...
...Yang, who stood trial in August, had intended to go on a hunger strike to protest his delayed verdict, which was due Dec. 1 of last year...
China has laws against delaying the announcement of a verdict, but Fu said Chinese officials who met with Yang last week told him that they could not do anything about the delay...
...Shaoping, Yang’s lawyer, said yesterday that Yang may begin his hunger strike next week unless he is given a reason why his verdict has been delayed...