May 18, 2001
China Scholars Protest Detentions
Nearly 400 leading scholars of China from 14 countries have signed an open letter to the Chinese president, Jiang Zemin, protesting that country's continuing detention of three of their colleagues.
The letter, released last month at a news conference in New York, called the detentions a gross violation of both China's criminal-procedure law and international human-rights law.
The letter was sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences' Committee for Human Rights, the American
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