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  • Chinese Democracy Activist Wang Released (Tiananmen Square protest)

    03/04/2004 5:08:51 AM PST · by CounterCounterCulture · 25 replies · 486+ views
    Associated Press (via Yahoo News) ^ | 4 March 2004 | Ted Anthony
    Chinese Democracy Activist Wang Released By TED ANTHONY, Associated Press Writer BEIJING - A longtime Chinese activist who helped organize the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and later co-founded a democracy party was released from prison on Thursday and left for the United States, a human rights activist said. The medical parole of Wang Youcai, on the heels of another prisoner release and a sentence reduction for a third activist, suggests the Chinese government is moving on cases the United States has identified as priorities. Wang left the Zhejiang No. 1 prison in southern China early Thursday, said goodbye to his...