The World - News from Jan. 10, 1989

China released a 33-year-old dissident who was active in the pro-democracy movement in Shanghai. Yang Wei, a former student at the University of Arizona whose case was taken up by the U.S. Congress, was freed after serving one year of a two-year prison term for “demagogical propaganda for counterrevolutionary ends.” Yang said he did not regret marching for democracy and writing for China Spring, the banned periodical of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy, a New York-based dissident group, but said he didn’t know whether he would continue working for political change in China.