Tiananmen Protest Leader Reported Held
From Times Wire Reports
Police have detained a former student leader of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, apparently to forestall any effort to mark the 10th anniversary of the crackdown on the demonstrations, a human rights group said. Police took Jiang Qisheng away from his Beijing home and searched it for two hours, the Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said. Jiang was a former doctoral student at People’s University.
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