World IN BRIEF : CHINA : Government Detains Prominent Dissidents
The government has detained three prominent dissidents and intensified its surveillance of several others as the sixth anniversary of the Tian An Men Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators approaches. The three detained are Wang Xizhe, a longtime dissident who spent 12 years in prison for his role in the 1978-81 Democracy Wall movement, which advocated human rights, Liu Xiaobo, a Beijing professor involved in the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tian An Men Square in 1989, and Huang Xiang, a poet and activist.
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