Police say a dissident legal scholar who was jailed for two years in China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement has been killed in his law firm’s office in New York
Highlights
- Li Jinjin, 66, was stabbed to death in the city where he had long worked as an immigration lawyer.
- Xiaoning Zhang, 25, was taken into custody and faces a murder charge.
- Friend of Li says killing might have stemmed from Li’s refusal to take Zhang on as a client.
- Zhang came to the U.S.
- in August on an F-1 student visa to go to school in Los Angeles, friend of Li’s says.
- Li was jailed for two years in China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.