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                 Chinese 'Quake' Activist Released from Prison

   A Chinese activist who tried to investigate whether shoddy construction
   caused the deaths of thousands of children when their schools collapsed
   in a 2008 earthquake has been released from prison after serving a five
   year sentence.
   Tan Zuoren`s lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, is quoted as saying Tan was reunited
   with his wife Thursday and sent home to the Sichuan capital, Chengdu.
   Attempts by VOA to reach him or his wife have failed.
   Chinese media reports in Hong Kong say Tan and his wife were taken to
   the city of Chongqing, where they are under constant surveillance to
   avoid being visited by activists.
   Huang Qi, who also served time in prison after trying to investigate
   the 2008 school collapses, told VOA`s Mandarin service Tan was released
   despite his refusal to apologize for his alleged crimes.
   "Tan`s Wife came to my home yesterday and talked a bit about Tan
   continuing his civil rights work after he is released from prison.
   While in prison Tan, refused to write a statement of regret or
   repentance, or sign a guarantee. He said that once he was released from
   prison he would continue his work of defending civil rights."
   Tan was formally jailed for articles he published online about the 1989
   Tiananmen Square crackdown. But activists believe he was jailed for
   attempting to investigate corruption involving the collapse of
   thousands of schools in the Sichuan earthquake.
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