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– Chinese writer and PEN member Yang Tongyan dies while on medical parole (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News November 10, 2017

Yang Tongyan succumbed to a brain tumour on 7 November 2017 just three months after he was released on medical parole. He spent a total of 22 years of his life in prison.
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