27 March 2014
Chinese dissident Tan Zuoren, who had criticized the repression of the democratic movement in 1989 and investigated schools destroyed during the strong earthquake of 2008, He was released this Thursday after spending five years in prison.
"Salió hoy y está camino a su casa" after having completely purged his sentence, his lawyer told AFP by telephone, Pu Zhiqiang.
Tan Zuoren was sentenced to five years in prison in February 2010 por "incitación a la subversión del poder del Estado", because of his criticism of the repression against the democratic movement of June 1989.
Thereafter,, He was arrested when he was investigating a very sensitive topic, the thousands of dead or missing children - officially 5.335- in some 7.000 schools destroyed during the earthquake 2008 in Sichuan Province (southwest).
After this drama, the parents, of mourning, but angry, They demanded to know the truth about why the school buildings their children attended were easily devastated while the official buildings withstood the earthquake..
