{"id":14389,"date":"2007-08-28T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T18:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/28\/welcome-return-for-chinese-dissident-others-not-free-to-travel-duihua\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T18:20:23","slug":"welcome-return-for-chinese-dissident-others-not-free-to-travel-duihua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/welcome-return-for-chinese-dissident-others-not-free-to-travel-duihua\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Return for Chinese Dissident, Others Not Free to Travel &#8211; Duihua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe following op-ed, about the government&#8217;s use of restrictions on travel to control political dissidents, appeared on the blog of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duihua.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Duihua Foundation<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/20\/AR2007082001895.html\" target=\"_blank\">reunion<\/a> last week of Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli with his wife and son after five years in a Chinese prison hopefully marks the first of many conciliatory gestures Beijing will make as it prepares to improve China&#8217;s image in the area of human rights before next year&#8217;s Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the fact that Yang was granted a Chinese passport&#8221;identifying him as a Chinese citizen with the right to return to China at will&#8221;could be seen as a sign of Beijing&#8217;s softening stance toward political dissent. Looking closer, however, at this and other recent events suggests that Yang Jianli&#8217;s passport is the exception and that China still plans to use restriction on travel as a means of punishing those who hold different political views. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duihua.org\/2007\/08\/welcome-return-for-chinese-dissident.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSee also <a href=\"http:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/china_law_prof_blog\/2007\/08\/yang-jianli-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">a comment on this article<\/a> from Donald Clarke on the Chinese Law Prof Blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following op-ed, about the government&#8217;s use of restrictions on travel to control political dissidents, appeared on the blog of the Duihua Foundation: The reunion last week of Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli with his wife and son after five years in a Chinese prison hopefully marks the first of many conciliatory gestures Beijing will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,10,100],"tags":[5426,1743,180],"class_list":["post-14389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-law","category-politics","tag-citizenship","tag-dissidents","tag-yang-jianli","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Welcome Return for Chinese Dissident, Others Not Free to Travel - Duihua<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/welcome-return-for-chinese-dissident-others-not-free-to-travel-duihua\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Welcome Return for Chinese Dissident, Others Not Free to Travel - Duihua\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The following op-ed, about the government&#8217;s use of restrictions on travel to control political dissidents, appeared on the blog of the Duihua Foundation: The reunion last week of Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli with his wife and son after five years in a Chinese prison hopefully marks the first of many conciliatory gestures Beijing will [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/welcome-return-for-chinese-dissident-others-not-free-to-travel-duihua\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-08-28T18:20:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/welcome-return-for-chinese-dissident-others-not-free-to-travel-duihua\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/welcome-return-for-chinese-dissident-others-not-free-to-travel-duihua\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"Welcome Return for Chinese Dissident, Others Not Free to Travel &#8211; 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