Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 6, 1994 TAG: 9404060109
SECTION: NATIONAL/INT PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: BEIJING LENGTH: Short
Police, who took Wei into custody four days ago, said they were questioning him on suspicion of unspecified ``new criminal offenses.'' They did not say where Wei was being held.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Mike McCurry said the United States regrets Wei's detention.
Meanwhile, police hustled away a young man who tried to lay a wreath in central Beijing's Tiananmen Square. He may have been trying to commemorate people killed when the army crushed the democracy movement in 1989.
- Associated Press
by CNB