The Washington Post, December 6th, 1998
Xu Wenli, who was arrested last week, knows what awaits him in the Chinese gulag. This isn't his first time. Xu, now 55, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for advocating democracy back in 1979. He spent his first three years in solitary confinement, in a cell of about six square yards. When he managed, in 1984, to smuggle out an account of his trial and interrogations, his living space was cut in half -- and he was returned to solitary confinement. When in 1989 he was permitted, for the first time in three years, to see his wife, Xu could hardly speak; he spent most of the half-hour weeping ...
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