Imprisoned Dissident's Family to Stage Hunger Strike on Chinese New Year's DayChina Information Center 2/1/2003 The family of Yang Jianli will stage a hunger strike outside the PRC embassy in Washington, DC this Saturday, to coincide with the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Yang, a democracy activist and longtime permanent resident of the US, has been held incommunicado in China for nine months. He has not been charged with any crime and his whereabouts is still unknown. -------------------------- |