World IN BRIEF : CHINA : 9 Pro-Democracy Dissidents Freed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
China has freed nine dissidents jailed without trial for their role in pro-democracy protests more than two years ago, an American human rights activist said. John Kamm, a Hong Kong businessman sometimes used by Beijing as a conduit for news about the fate of jailed dissidents, said the nine had been released since last November. The U.S.-based human rights group Asia Watch this month said more than 1,000 activists associated with the 1989 pro-democracy movement were still in jail.
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