The good news is that two dissidents arrested and imprisoned in China in 2001 have just been released: Yang Zili and Zhang Honghai. The NY Times has the story. The bad news is that these two were imprisoned for no real reason – the two were members of an informal discussion group that met several times, with no more than four or five people at a meeting. Yet they were deemed to be “threats” to the thug government of China. Perhaps the thugs are really just cowards.
Two other members of the group, Xu Wei and Jin Haike, and scheduled to be released next year.
