China Grants Clemency to Labor Leader Chen Gang and Journalist Wu Shishen

November 22, 2004

The Dui Hua Foundation has released information about the recent release of Chen Gang, a worker from Xiangtang, Hunan, and the propsective release next year of Wu Shishen, a former Xinhua domestic news editor. Both prisoners have long been the focus of advocacy efforts by human rights groups and foreign governments, including the U.S. government.