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During his closed trial on Monday, Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli will no doubt have been asked to explain why he returned to China. It's a question Yang must have asked himself often in his 15 months of virtual isolation since he was arrested in April 2002 after entering the country using a forged passport. Why would a man of his superior intellect, a man who holds doctorates from both the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard, do something so foolish? Why would a husband, a father with two small children and a comfortable home...
...Chinese government's official answer to these questions, as expressed in an indictment handed down last month by authorities in Beijing, is that Yang was spying for Taiwan. According to Yang's wife, Christina Fu, and lawyers advising her, the evidence cited for this charge consists of little more than the fact that a foundation Yang ran for a few years until 1994 received funding from donors in Taiwan's Kuomintang political party and that Yang sent $400 to three relatives and one friend on the mainland. More likely, the charge of espionage is intended to get mainland authorities...
...China's Trial Run CHINA The verdict from the trial of Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli - which opens in Beijing Monday - may hint at the direction the new communist leadership will take on human-rights issues. Yang has been held in virtual isolation since he was arrested 15 months ago for entering the country on a false passport, and was denied access to a lawyer and family members for nearly a year. Blacklisted as a result of his activism during the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, Yang settled in the U.S. His wife says he returned to China...
...overseas may keep Yang from conviction. China's new leaders still have a chance to prove they're not like their predecessors. - By Susan Jakes/Beijing Bombs Away FRANCE Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said the arrest by French police of three men suspected of belonging to the Basque terrorist group ETA had destroyed the "logistical nucleus of ETA in France." The two Spaniards, José Candido Sagarzazu and Juan Miguel Illarramendi, and Frenchman Claude Recart were captured when French antiterrorist officers raided their house in Cahors. Police also discovered 448 kg of explosives and a number of firearms...
Jamison said that the outcome is still very much unsure for Yang...