Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi dies in exile in US

Irish Times Sunday 8th April, 2012

CLIFFORD COONANFANG LIZHI, one of China’s best-known dissidents and one of the highest profile figures during the 1989 pro-democracy movement, has died in exile in the US.The astrophysicist spent 13 months hiding out in the US embassy after the tanks moved in to crack down on the student demonstrators on Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989, in...

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