RELEASE OF YANG WEI.

SEC. 907. RELEASE OF YANG WEI. (a) Findings.— The Congress makes the following findings: (1) Yang Wei, a Chinese national, studied at the University of Arizona from 1983 until he received his masters of science degree in microbiology in 1986. (2) In May 1986 Yang Wei returned to China to marry Dr. Che Shaoli and arrange for funding for his continued studies under a PhD program at the University of Arizona. 101 STAT. 1406Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987. Palestine Liberation Organization. (3) On January 11, 1987, while still an official student at the University of Arizona, Yang Wei was arrested by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. (4) Yang Wei has been held without charge or trial since January 11, 1987. (5) Mr. Yang’s wife, a student at Baylor Medical College in Houston, Texas, has been refused any information about her husband’s whereabouts or condition by Chinese authorities. (6) Mr. Yang’s father, Yang Jue, and his mother Bi Shuyun, have been denied all contact with their son. (7) The Chinese Criminal Procedure law of 1979, sections 92, 97, 125, and 142 provides for a maximum of four and a half months of detention without charge or trial and Yang Wei has now been held over six months, contrary to Chinese law. (8) Yang Wei has not committed any crime under United States or Chinese law. (9) Yang Wei and his wife only aspire to freedom and democracy. (10) The treatment of Mr. Yang and his family is frightening to all Chinese students now studying in the West and meant to be so by Chinese authorities. (11) Recently more than two thousand Chinese students signed an open letter to express their concern about recent political developments in their country. (b) Policy.— It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the People’s Republic of China should immediately release Yang Wei; and (2) the United States should consider sympathetically applications for asylum from Chinese students studying in the United States who can, on a case-by-case basis, demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution.