"The police in southern China have detained an outspoken advocate of democratic rights on charges of disrupting public order, his lawyer and human rights groups said on Saturday. They called his detention another step in a government effort to stifle dissidents who have challenged the Communist Party over censorship and officials’ wealth…" "…Mr. Yang, formerly a novelist and a businessman involved in publishing, has been among the members of China’s human rights advocacy movement who favor a more combative approach and more ambitious demands. He first became widely known in 2005, when he emerged as an organizer of villagers on the outskirts of Guangzhou protesting against official corruption and land seizures. In 2007, he was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of illegal publishing activities, although he and his supporters maintained that the charges were a baseless excuse to silence his political dissent. He was released in late 2011, having already served some of his sentence in detention before his conviction…"
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 12:59:27 +0000
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