Chinese Democracy Activist Released on Medical Parole, Heads for U.S.

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Thu Mar-04-04 09:52 AM
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Chinese Democracy Activist Released on Medical Parole, Heads for U.S.

BEIJING (AP) - 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 family and boarded a plane for San Francisco, according to John Kamm, executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, a rights group

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA5QTRTERD.html

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Thu Mar-04-04 10:01 AM
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1. Welcome...

Edited on Thu Mar-04-04 10:01 AM by Concerned GA Voter

...to the land of the relatively free. Care to help us keep it that way?

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