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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) invited Liu Gang, the 32-year-old physicist imprisoned for his role in the nonviolent Chinese democracy movement of 1989, to attend its annual meeting in San Francisco in February. When no response came, C.K. Gunsalus, chairman of the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility and associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, wrote Chinese Premier Li Peng on February 16, just before the start of the meeting, to express the concern of her group over Liu Gang's fate. Still no response. So, at the meeting in San Francisco, the AAAS committee--in cooperation with the Committee of Concerned Scientists, an independent group of scientists monitoring human rights--circulated a petition addressed to Li Peng and other Chinese officials protesting "inhumane conditions of internment" for Liu Gang and other scientists being held for nonviolent political offenses. Meanwhile, the AAAS group ...

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