Yang Jia
Male, Deceased Person
1980 – 2008
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Who was Yang Jia?
Yang Jia was a Chinese citizen executed for murdering six Shanghai police officers with a knife.
Yang received international media attention for the public sympathy accorded to him in China, where, according to exiled writer Ma Jian, Yang has become "a sort of national hero." Beijing lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan prominently defended Yang.
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- Born
- Aug 27, 1980
Beijing - Nationality
- China
- Lived in
- Beijing
- Died
- Nov 26, 2008
Shanghai
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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