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Zhang Lin with his daughter Anni in 2013. Photo credit: Hu Jia
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WRWF CONDEMNS 3.5 YEAR SENTENCE OF PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST; ZHANG LIN TO APPEAL
Renowned pro-democracy activist Zhang Lin, currently serving his fifth detention since 1989, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place” while peacefully advocating for his youngdaughter’s right to attend school. He has initiated the appeal process.
In April 2013, Zhang Lin’s younger daughter Anni was kidnapped out of her elementary school and detained overnight, because of the pro-democracy activism of her father. Anni was ten years old at the time and has become known as “China’s youngest prisoner of conscience.”  A crowd of activists gathered after government officials detained Anni overnight, then denied her the right to go to school. Anni had to leave China in order to receive an education in the United States. Women’s Rights Without Frontiers President Reggie Littlejohn and her husband Robert are now raising Anni and her older sister, Ruli, as part of their family in San Jose, California.
Littlejohn stated, “WRWF condemns the shocking three and a half year jail sentence of Zhang Lin... Read More
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