A prominent Chinese-Canadian writer and democracy activist who left China after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 is disheartened over the controversy surrounding the location of the National Memorial to Victims of Communism.
Prominent Chinese legal activist Xu Zhiyong, famous for his founding of the grass-roots New Citizens’ Movement, was sentenced by the No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court in Beijing Sunday to four years in prison on the charge of “gathering a crowd to disturb public order.”