And the Chinese pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli has returned to the United States after serving a five-year prison sentence in China. Yang moved to Boston after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising. On Tuesday he accused Chinese authorities of torturing him in jail.

Yang Jianli: “The first couple of years of my imprisonment was very difficult, was very harsh. When I first got there, there were many worries, and the authorities tried various kind of means to subdue me, try to press for information from me. They used different — I was constantly subject to physical torture and psychological torture.”