Perhaps some of the red-diaper doper babies from the ACLU and other groups that are defending terrorists would consider taking up real cases of human rights abuses instead. You know, ones like this example of abuse of an individual by government for daring to engage in non-violent expressive conduct.

A protester jailed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing was finally released yesterday having gone mad in solitary confinement.

Yu Dongyue, then 22, and two other men each threw an eggshell filled with red ink at a Chairman Mao portrait.

He was jailed for 20 years for "counter-revolutionary activity" and "sabotage" two months after the tanks moved in, killing hundreds of people.

He has been freed three years early and his mother, Wu Pinghua, was told last night he was on his way home.

"My last prison visit was in December 2004, and he couldn't tell who we were," she said. "The official said he now couldn't look after himself and needed spoonfeeding."

Yu was a country boy who made it to college, moving to the city of Liuyang in central Hunan province. After teaching, he became an arts writer for the local newspaper.

With his best friend, Yu Zhijian (no relation), he joined the protesters in Beijing three days before martial law was declared. With another man from Hunan, they decided on an eye-catching protest. Yu Zhijian, his friend, who originally received a life sentence, last year described how prison guards ordered other inmates to beat him because he refused to admit his guilt.

His release comes in the middle of a new wave of dissident protest in China. The government is trying to rein in outspoken journalists and the internet, sacking editors and jailing writers.

So come on, Leftists – quit defending those who want to kill you and start defending real victims of human rights abuse.

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