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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 14 > Chinese dissident, just freed, calls imprisonment an ‘honor’

Chinese dissident, just freed, calls imprisonment an ‘honor’

By Andrew Jacobs / The Bulletin
March 14, 2009

BEIJING — The day after he was released from Beijing No.2 Prison, Yang Zili sat down at a McDonald’s and, over a cup of Sprite, tried to make sense of his life.

After eight years in prison on charges that an informal political discussion group he organized in 2000 was seeking....

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