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Song Yongyi, a U.S.-based academic detained by China on
suspicion of gathering state secrets, left for home Saturday
after Beijing freed him in a gesture ahead of a pivotal
Congressional debate on its WTO entry.
Song, detained since August in a case that triggered appeals
to China by U.S. academics, lawmakers and diplomats, left
the Chinese capital on Northwest Airlines flight NW088 to
Detroit, a U.S. offici
From YAHOO! News.
Song Yongyi, a U.S.-based academic detained by China on
suspicion of gathering state secrets, left for home Saturday
after Beijing freed him in a gesture ahead of a pivotal
Congressional debate on its WTO entry.
Song, detained since August in a case that triggered appeals
to China by U.S. academics, lawmakers and diplomats, left
the Chinese capital on Northwest Airlines flight NW088 to
Detroit, a U.S. officiPolice detained Song in August while he was conducting
research on China\’s 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution. He was
formally arrested in December and accused of illegally
sending documents containing state secrets out of China.
The Chinese-born Song, who worked as a librarian and
researcher at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
left Beijing just days after a Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman said Song had “confessed everything\’\’ and faced
criminal proceedings.
Lawyer Jerome Cohen, whom the college had retained, was
quoted by CNN as saying the sudden release was a
“face-saving gesture\’\’ after the police were unable to mak
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