WORLD IN BRIEF : CHINA : 2 Leading Activists Reported Captured
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
China has smashed an underground escape network, arresting the country’s two most wanted pro-democracy activists after more than four months on the run, a Chinese source in Hong Kong said. Wang Juntao, 31, and Chen Ziming, 37, backstage organizers of the Beijing student movement, were arrested earlier this month in southern Guangdong province, according to a Communist Party document. They were reportedly betrayed by a contact with knowledge of the escape network.
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