Free at Last: 'I'm Not a Spy': Scholar Li Shaomin tells of his harrowing five months in a Chinese prison. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(CHINA)(National Affairs)(Brief Article)

From: Newsweek | Date: August 6, 2001| Author: Clemetson, Lynette | Copyright information

Confined in a Chinese prison, Li Shaomin was stripped of virtually everything that would bring him comfort--letters from his daughter, the Bible his wife sent him, books and newspapers with information on the outside world. Referred to as prisoner 1036, the Princeton-educated professor was allowed few privileges. Among them, smoking--a habit he had struggled to give up years before. Now back in Washington, D.C., tasting freedom for the first time in five months, Li's old vice is th...

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