On May 13, 2004, China's Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court sentence Yang Jianli to five years in prison. Yang was found guilty for espionage and illegal border crossing. Yang had been imprisoned in Beijing for over two years with verdicts pending.

More Information, go to:

• China Gives Prison Term to Dissident Based in U.S.: Five-Year Sentence Comes Despite American Urgings (May 14, 2004 - Washington Post)
• Guilty Verdict Plus Five-Year Sentence for Yang Jianli (May 13, 2004 - CSN)
• China Jails U.S.-based Dissident (May 13, 2004 - CNN)
• China Gives U.S.-Based Dissident Prison (May 13, 2004 - AP)
• China Jails U.S.-Based Activist Yang for Spying (May 13, 2004 - Reuters)

For daily updates on Yang's situation, go to www.supportjianli.org