World IN BRIEF : CHINA : Police Arrest Four More Dissidents
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Police arrested a labor activist, a scientist and two others as the government continued to detain dissidents in advance of the June 4 anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tian An Men Square. Most of those detained have petitioned the government recently for greater tolerance and for the release of pro-democracy activists still imprisoned six years later.
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