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Chinese Democracy Activist Wang Released

HeadlineMar 04, 2004

In news from China, Wang Youcai, A longtime Chinese human rights activist who helped organize the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests was released from prison today. In 1998 he had been sentenced to 11 years in prison after he helped start the China Democracy Project.

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