

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 East-Asia-Intel.com

A Chinese democracy activist told Congress last week that China is under martial law as part of security preparations for the August Olympic Games.

Yang Jianli, a Tiananmen democracy advocate in 1989, fled the country and was arrested and charged with espionage in 2002 before being release in 2007.

Chinese pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli at a news conference in Washington on Aug. 21, 2007, after serving five years in a Chinese prison. Left to right are Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, Yang's wife, Christine Fu, Yang and their son, Aaron. AP Photo/Dennis Cook



Now at Harvard and president of the Initiatives for China, Yang told the hearing that “the Chinese government is clearly intimidating the Chinese people not to do anything during the Olympics.”

“Beijing is under martial law now. Beijing has become a forbidden city itself,” he said.

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