Aaron Yang

It makes me feel bad," 7-year-old Aaron Yang asked his mother one day recently when he came home from school.
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Yang, a former Communist Party member in China, was working on his doctorate in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, when the pro-democracy movement boiled over in China.He rushed home to participate in the protests, which left 5,000 dead and changed his life.

Yang, 39, has become a thorn in Beijing's side.He is a cofounder of the Boston-based Foundation for China in the 21st Century, which broadcasts "The Voice of China" into China and runs a Web site, www.chinaeweekly

.com. His efforts earned him a place among 49 dissidents who have been blacklisted from returning to China.

Yang was foolish trying to get back into China using phony papers.But his wife says there was no way to dissuade him from returning for what was supposed to be a 10-day stay.
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The kids, Anita and Aaron, have their basketballs, baseball caps, and musical instruments everywhere.An American flag is on the refrigerator door, next to the schedule for parent-teacher conferences and the "Free Jianli" button.

It makes me feel bad,'' 7-year-old Aaron Yang asked his mother one day recently when he came home from school. ''I tell him that even if he is in jail, he is a good person,'' Fu says. ''China is different.''

Human rights will be low on the agenda when Bush and Jiang meet, but it has been at the top of Yang's agenda since the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square. Yang, a former Communist Party member in China, was working on his doctorate in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, when the pro-democracy movement boiled over in China. He rushed home to participate in the protests, which left 5,000 dead and changed his life.

Yang, 39, has become a thorn in Beijing's side. He is a cofounder of the Boston-based Foundation for China in the 21st Century, which broadcasts ''The Voice of China'' into China and runs a Web site, www.chinaeweekly.com. His efforts earned him a place among 49 dissidents who have been blacklisted from returning to China.

Yang was foolish trying to get back into China using phony papers. But his wife says there was no way to dissuade him from returning for what was supposed to be a 10-day stay.
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The kids, Anita and Aaron, have their basketballs, baseball caps, and musical instruments everywhere.

It makes me feel bad," 7-year-old Aaron Yang asked his mother one day recently when he came home from school.
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Yang, a former Communist Party member in China, was working on his doctorate in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, when the pro-democracy movement boiled over in China. He rushed home to participate in the protests, which left 5,000 dead and changed his life.

Yang, 39, has become a thorn in Beijing's side. He is a cofounder of the Boston-based Foundation for China in the 21st Century, which broadcasts "The Voice of China" into China and runs a Web site, www.chinaeweekly.com. His efforts earned him a place among 49 dissidents who have been blacklisted from returning to China.

Yang was foolish trying to get back into China using phony papers. But his wife says there was no way to dissuade him from returning for what was supposed to be a 10-day stay.
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The kids, Anita and Aaron, have their basketballs, baseball caps, and musical instruments everywhere.

As you are undoubtedly aware, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Dr. Yang was being arbitrarily detained in June 2003 and requested that the Chinese government remedy the situation as soon as possible.Yet, Dr. Yang remains in detention.

According to Article 168, section 1, of the Criminal Procedure Law, a court has, at a maximum, two and one half months from the date it accepts a case to announce a judgment in the case.The exceptions to the two-and-one-half-months requirement set forth in sections 2 and 3 of Article 168 have no bearing on Dr. Yang's current detention status.
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Aaron Yang, son

Anita Yang and Aaron Yang
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Aaron Yang, June 1, 2005
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Aaron Yang, Nov. 15, 2005
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Aaron Yang, Nov. 21, 2005