{"id":7411,"date":"2006-05-05T23:24:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T06:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/05\/05\/china-grants-parole-to-democracy-activist-ap\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T23:24:41","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T06:24:41","slug":"china-grants-parole-to-democracy-activist-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/05\/china-grants-parole-to-democracy-activist-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"China Grants Parole to Democracy Activist &#8211; AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From AP via the Washington Post (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/05\/05\/AR2006050501543.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Chinese democracy activist has been paroled after more than six years in prison for helping form a political party seeking to challenge the communists&#8217; monopoly on power, a fellow activist said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China_Democracy_Party\" target=\"_blank\">China Democracy Party<\/a>, Zhu Zhengming, was freed this week, nearly four years before his 10-year sentence was due to expire, said Cheng Fan, who had also been briefly detained for his part in the attempts to register the party.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng said it wasn&#8217;t clear why Zhu had been released early, although he said Zhu was told he would have to report to police regularly and apply for permission to travel, Cheng said.<\/p>\n<p>Zhu, a chemist believed to be 43 or 44, could not immediately be reached for comment, and calls to his mother&#8217;s home in the eastern city of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wenzhou\" target=\"_blank\">Wenzhou <\/a>rang unanswered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/reports\/2000\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nipped in the Bud: The Suppression of the China Democracy Party<\/a>&#8221; by Human Rights Watch; &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/1999\/aug1999\/cdp-a14.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">China Democracy Party members face political trials<\/a>&#8221; by World Socialist Web Site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP via the Washington Post (link): A Chinese democracy activist has been paroled after more than six years in prison for helping form a political party seeking to challenge the communists&#8217; monopoly on power, a fellow activist said Friday. 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