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[edit] Removal of "An inconsistency of his story..."

I removed the part "An inconsistency in his story is that had he been arrested, it would not have been possible for him to graduate by 1959".

Wu studied at the Geology Institute in Beijing, where he was first arrested in 1956 for criticizing the Communist Party during the brief period of liberalization in China known as the Hundred Flowers Campaign. He has also claimed that he protested the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. An inconsistency in his story is that had he been arrested, it would not have been possible for him to graduate by 1959. In 1960 he was sent to the laogai ("re-education through labor"), the Chinese labor camp system, as "counterrevolutionary rightist."

[edit] Reason

As a neutral reader, I erased the sentence for the following reasons:

1. The erased sentence seems to have been placed there only for political purposes. There is no doubt that Harry Wu was prosecuted by the communist government for his ideas.
2. The fact that Wu had been arrested in 1956 does not imply that he would not graduate in 1959, because:
   1. one can be arrested and then immediately released;
   2. one can be allowed to study and take a diploma even while in prison.

By Vitaltrust (talk) 10:05, 31 May 2008 (UTC).