Yu Jie, a prominent Chinese writer close to Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, describes "inhumane treatment" that forced him to leave for the US.

Yu Jie: author who fights for those who fear to speak out The 33-year-old critic and writer said the mausoleum of Mao in Tiananmen is an "abomination" and religious freedom "can only help the people".

Yu-Jie Chen (@yujiechentw) is an assistant research professor at the Law Institute of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and an affiliated scholar of N.Y.U. School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute.

Yu Jie was arrested for writing a book critical of Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister. He also had close ties to the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, Liu Xiaobo .

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Chinese dissident and author Yu Jie said late Wednesday he was granted asylum in the United States last week and plans to start a website in support of his friend, imprisoned ...

Yu Jie is head of China Foresight at LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank of the London School of Economics. LONDON — In the mid-1960s, Mao Zedong told his fellow leaders of the Chinese ...

Exile discusses Chinese dissident’s case. Yu Jie, now living in Virginia, says Chen Guangcheng may have been unaware of danger he faced in leaving US embassy.

The defection of Chinese writer and dissident Yu Jie last week revealed shocking allegations of torture and beatings more usually associated with rogue American troops in Iraq.. Yu, a close friend of ...

Yu Jie said he was detained and questioned at a police station for four hours on Monday. The officers had threatened him with a prison sentence if he went ahead with his plans for publishing the ...