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...
