World IN BRIEF : CHINA : ’89 Protest Leader Released From Jail

Prominent Chinese dissident Liu Gang said he had been freed after completing a six-year jail term for his role as a leader of the 1989 student demonstrations in Beijing’s Tian An Men Square. “I was released this morning,” Liu, 33, said by telephone from his home near the northeastern city of Jilin. However, he said police told him he was not allowed to leave his home district for two years, speak to foreign reporters or have any contact with “enemies of the state.” Liu, a former physics student at Beijing University, was sentenced on charges of conspiracy to subvert the government.