AP (via Google News): Dissident released after 16 years in jail in China

Excerpted from The Ottawa Citizen:

Hu Shigen, 53, was released Tuesday after serving the majority of his 20-year sentence for "carrying out counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement" and "organizing a counterrevolutionary group," said Human Rights in China.

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For more information on this issue:

• “Take Action for Hu Shigen,” June 2008, http://www.ir2008.org/06/action.php;
• "About the Individual: Hu Shigen," Incorporating Responsibility 2008 Olympics Take Action Campaign, June 4, 2008, http://www.ir2008.org/06/about.php;
  
  
• "Prisoner Profile - Hu Shigen," China Rights Forum, 2004, No.4, http://www.hrichina.org/public/PDFs/CRF.4.2004/PrisonerProfile4.2004.pdf;
  
  
• Press Release: "Imprisoned Dissident Reported in Critical Health," November 2, 2004, http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/18448;
  
  
• “Take Action: Tiananmen 2008 and Beyond,” June 2008, http://hrichina.org/public/PDFs/CRF.2.2008/CRF-2008-2_Action.pdf;
• “Take Action: Individuals in Arbitrary Detention,” China Rights Forum, 2007, No.1 http://hrichina.org/public/PDFs/CRF.1.2007/CRF-2007-1_Action.pdf.