In the past few months. many of those demonstrators were released. but some. such as Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming. were not only convicted of "crimes" against the governme.t. but sentencedin these two cases--to 13 years in prison for expressing democratic ideas. Congressman SMITH and I asked that all the prodemocracy prisoners be released. We also brought up their cases in meetings we had while we were in China. A third issue which we discussed was the issue of family reunification. Right now there are approximately 3.000 Chinese families which are divided because of the Chinese Governments failure to allow its citizens to emigrate to countries of their choice. a right. I might add. which is guaranteed in the charter of the United Nations. Congressman SMITH and I discussed four of these cases with Chinese authorities.
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