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BEJING - Jun 98 Amnesty International yesterday called on Chinese President Jiang Zemin to release all those still in prison for their roles in student-led demonstrations for democracy crushed by the Army on June 4, 1989. The London-based human rights group said it had documented at least 250 people still in prison in connection with the protests centred on Bejing's Tiananmen Square, although the real figures were probably much higher. "The majority of those imprisoned at the time received blatantly unfair trials," the group said. "Many were tortured to extract 'confessions' and received sentences out of proportion to the crimes they are said to have committed," it said. Amnesty highlighted the cases of three prisoners, including Wang Jiaxiang, whais believed to be at least 75 and serving a life sentence for counter-revolutionary, or subversive, sabotage. Wang was arrested in Bejing in June 1989 and initially convicted of counter-revolutionary propaganda and damaging property, the group said. However, by the time he was sentenced, two and a half years later, the charges had been changed.

Amnesty also took up the case of Yao Guisheng, who is serving a 15-year sentence in central Hunan province for alleged looting. Yao was arrested in 1989 because he helped leaders of the independent Workers Autonomous Federation to escape from China after the crackdown. While serving his prison sentence, Yao was reportedly regularly beaten and forced to wear shackles, and was, said to have become mentally ill as a result of his treatment Amnesty called on foreign Governments to continue to press the Chinese Government to release all prisoners of conscience. - REUTERS