Chinese Dissident Stripped of Posts in Research Society
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BEIJING — Dissident Fang Lizhi, who has taken shelter in the U.S. Embassy since the bloody crushing of pro-democracy protests in June, has been stripped of his posts in a Chinese research society, official reports said Friday.
The China Natural Dialectics Research Society took the action against Fang, an astrophysicist, because of his alleged “counter-revolutionary” crimes, the People’s Daily said.
Fang had served as an executive vice chairman and council member of the society, the paper said.
Fang and his physicist wife Li Shuxian, both outspoken critics of the Communist authorities, have been the target of vitriolic attacks in China’s media since seeking asylum in the embassy after the army massacre of protesters in Beijing.
China describes the couple as wanted criminals and has accused the United States of violating international law by sheltering them.
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