Activist Held After Return to China
Associated Press
BEIJING —
Ending a nationwide manhunt, Chinese police arrested an exiled pro-democracy activist who had slipped back into the country to form an opposition party to the Communists, fellow dissidents said Saturday.
Wang Bingzhang was caught in the eastern city of Bengbu about noon Friday, shortly after he arrived there by train, dissidents in Hong Kong and the U.S. said.
Previous attempts by exiles to unite dissidents at home have ended in arrests and further divisions among the splintered democracy movement.
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