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Beijing

Published on
May 12, 2000
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Chinese authorities have released Chen Lantao, a former university researcher and marine biologist, who was serving an 18-year prison sentence for denouncing the military assault on Tiananmen demonstrators in 1989.

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