On the Chinese New Year Day, the family members of Yang Jian-Li held hunger strike (1)Charles Dharapak  The wife of detained Chinese dissident Yang Jian-Li, Christine, adjusts the coat of their seven-year-old son Aaron (also pictured on poster) as they protest for his release across from the Chinese embassy in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. Yang, a 38-year-old U.S. educated pro-democracy activist, was detained by Chinese authorities on April 27, 2002 when he returned to China for the first time since the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. Words in Chinese read, 'Free Yang Jian-Li'. (2003-2-1) -------------------------- |