January 14, 2000
China Arrests Scholar From Dickinson College
Dickinson College is organizing a massive letter-writing campaign to protest China's arrest, in late December, of Yongyi Song, a librarian and scholar at the college. He was charged with "illegal provision of intelligence to foreign people."
Chinese authorities had detained Mr. Song and his wife, Helen Yao, since August, when they were in China to visit family members and do academic research, but had not formally arrested him (The Chronicle, September 24,
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