News: Cyber-dissident Ma Yalian released on completing sentence

Posted byYan Sham-ShackletonPosted inZhong Guo, Middle Kingdom
Cyber-dissident Ma Yalian
released on completing sentence

Ma Yalian, a cyber-dissident who had been held
since 19 March 2004 for posting articles on the web about China’s
inefficient system for registering complaints, was released on 19
August on completing a sentence of 18 months of "reeducation through
work" camp.

A total of 62 other cyber-dissidents are still
currently imprisoned in China for circulating articles and information
critical of the authorities on the Internet.

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

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