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Kennedy School of Government graduate and pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli has refused to appeal a five-year Chinese prison sentence for espionage, citing illegal misconduct by China’s judicial system...
...Yang was found guilty and sentenced on May 13, and had 10 days to appeal the court’s decision...
...Brothers” running a laundry service. AsianWeek.com reported how Shaquille O’Neal cracked racial jokes, repeatedly singled out Houston Rockets player Yao Ming for mockery and even threats of violence, and told a reporter to “Tell Yao Ming, ‘ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’” The media, including The Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated and the Associated Press, ignored the incident and declined to report...
SENTENCED. YANG JIANLI, 40, human-rights activist and permanent U.S. resident; to five years in prison for allegedly spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Yang studied for a doctorate in math in California in the 1980s but returned to China to participate in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After returning to the U.S.-where he earned a second Ph.D., at Harvard-Yang wrote prolifically about the need for democracy in China and was declared persona non grata by Beijing. In mid-2002, Yang returned to China on a borrowed passport to investigate labor unrest...
...weeks before the alleged abuses, Yang threatened to go on a hunger strike but was dissuaded from doing so by his wife...