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  • 6 - Category III
  • from Part III. - Case Jurisprudence
  • Jared Genser
  • Book: The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
  • Published online: 20 September 2019
  • Print publication: 26 September 2019, pp 229-409
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    Summary

    When the total or partial non-observance of the international norms relating to the right to a fair trial, established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned, is of such gravity as to give the deprivation of liberty an arbitrary character (category III);1

  • 14 - Yang Jianli v. China
  • from Part IV. - Additional Case Studies
  • Jared Genser
  • Book: The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
  • Published online: 20 September 2019
  • Print publication: 26 September 2019, pp 549-558
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    Summary

    At the time of his arrest in April 2002, Yang Jianli was a thirty-nine- year-old scholar and democracy activist, who was well known for his efforts to promote democracy in China. Born a Chinese citizen, Yang had resided in the United States since 1986. He holds doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and in political economy and government from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.1 Yang was the founder and president of the Foundation for China 21st Century, through which he promoted the cause of democracy in China.