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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Tiananmen Square protester stabbed to death in his law firm’s office in New York

Grace Wong via Medium

A Chinese dissident immigrant lawyer was stabbed to death allegedly by a woman in his law firm’s office in New York, where he had settled after seeking asylum in the US.

Li Jinjin, 66, had served nearly two years in prison for participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests and had continued to advocate publicly for those jailed or killed by Chinese authorities during the nation’s democracy movement.

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