Taiwan Releases Southland Publisher
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Lee Ya-ping, publisher of a Monterey Park-based Chinese-language newspaper who was arrested in Taiwan last week on charges of publishing Communist Chinese propaganda, was released in Taipei, pending arraignment, according to an editor of her publication. Lee, 62, a Taiwan citizen with immigrant status in the United States, was released without bail “on one condition--she has to report to them whenever they want her,” Anthony Yuen, editor-in-chief of the International Daily News, said after talking with her by telephone. “She said they did not mention when they would arraign her,” Yuen said. “She said everything is fine. The people in the detention house treated her nice.
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