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Yang’s Washington-based lawyer Jared Genser said yesterday that Yang will file an appeal of his sentence—he has 10 days to do so—though he added that the odds of getting the sentence overturned are “probably zero...
...Yang was tried in August on the espionage charges but no conviction was made. The deadline for a verdict was Dec. 1, but he was not sentenced until yesterday...
...Yang was arrested April 26, 2002 after entering China with a friend’s passport and traveling for a week on a fake identification card. Yang had been banned from China following his involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square...
During his evidence hearing yesterday, Genser said Yang “refused to answer” the questions posed to him by the court...
Last month, the State Department began investigating reports that Yang had been physically abused in prison. According to Fu, Yang was moved last month to solitary confinement where he was handcuffed, prevented from exercising and denied access to his lawyer...