Excerpted from AFP:
They were both freed on Thursday but are subject to a two-year ban on speaking to foreign media or rights organisations without official approval, the New York-based Human Rights in China said in a statement late Friday.
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- "Case Update: Beijing Intellectuals Yang Zili and Zhang Honghai Released after Eight Years in Prison,"
March 12, 2009, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/141758;
- "Imprisoned Internet Dissident on Hunger Strike," June 2, 2003, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/11403;
- "Four Internet Activists Imprisoned for Subversion," May 28, 2003, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/11379;
- "Punishing Youthful Enthusiasm: Jin Haike, Xu Wei, Yang Zili, and Zhang Honghai on Trial," July 26, 2001, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/4341;
- "Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate Criminal Indictment," July 26, 2001, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/4209.
