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Kennedy School of Government graduate Yang Jianli has been imprisoned in China for a year and a half, including seven months in an eight-by-eight-foot cell and fourteen months without being charged nor allowed contact with the outside world. Two and a half months ago, Yang was granted a three-hour closed trial for espionage against the Chinese government. The trial’s verdict, however, was deferred until the end of November—to allow prosecutors to gather further evidence. Meanwhile, nothing has been demonstrated against Yang beyond his possession of fake papers and his propensity...
China must cease to treat Yang—and the many other prisoners whose unjust incarcerations foul its human rights record—in such cruel and unusual ways for this era of human history. No concrete evidence against Yang has materialized, and yet he has already incurred significant punishment; while here in Cambridge his wife and eight-year-old son endure excruciating and interminable uncertainty as to his fate. Yang and many other prisoners of the Chinese government have not been proven guilty on criminal charges yet have been held captive in unjustifiably harsh conditions for extended periods?...
Apart from his possession of false documents—a passport belonging to someone else, without which Yang would not have been allowed into China—the Chinese government’s case rests entirely on Yang’s vocal enthusiasm for democracy. China’s imprisonment of a supporter of democracy demonstrates that while China may be more open to the West than it was in decades past, it has yet to adopt fundamental human rights. China must learn that opinions cannot be punished...
...greatly appreciate the efforts of the State Department in pressing for Dr. Yang’s release, but we fear at this point that without your direct intercession...Dr. Yang will continue to suffer for nothing more than his love of democracy,” they wrote Bush...
...During the first year of his detention, Dr. Yang Jianli was not only held incommunicado and in solitary confinement, but we just learned he was not allowed to exercise outside his cell, was denied access to all reading materials, and was interrogated by [People’s Republic of China] authorities over 100 times,” said Jared Genser, a legal advisor to Jianli’s family and also a KSG graduate. “Collectively, this treatment qualifies as torture under international...