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Zeckhauser, who is the Ramsey professor of political economy, said that he expects Yang to return to the Boston area, where his wife, a Harvard Medical School researcher, and two young children await his return...
...Yang, co-founder of the pro-democracy group Foundation for China in the 21st Century, was arrested when he entered China to investigate labor conditions...
Zeckhauser led 34 Kennedy School faculty members, including then-dean Joseph S. Nye, in a 2002 letter-writing campaign to persuade the Chinese government to release Yang. Similar efforts were undertaken by both the U.S. Congress and the State Department, but Zeckhauser said “the Chinese government was basically very unresponsive...
...August 2003, 15 months after his initial detainment, Yang was put on trial on charges of espionage and visa violations, and eventually sentenced to five years in prison. Yang’s trial was closed to public observers on the grounds that it concerned state secrets...
Yang’s lawyer, Mo Shaoping, alleged in 2003 that Yang had been kept in solitary confinement, barred from exercise, denied access to reading materials, and kept handcuffed until his hands were “bloody and infected...