China frees Tiananmen Square protester

China has freed a teacher and reduced the prison term of an accomplice jailed for splattering paint on Mao Tse-tung's portrait in Tiananmen Square.

Sat, 13 Jan, 2001 - 10:03

China has freed a teacher and reduced the prison term of an accomplice jailed for splattering paint on Mao Tse-tung's portrait in Tiananmen Square.

By defacing the mammoth pictutre, Yu Zhijian and Yu Dongyue symbolized popular anger at China's old guard during the 1989 protests.

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