Milestones

SENTENCED. YANG JIANLI , 40, human-rights activist and permanent U.S. resident; to five years in prison for allegedly spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Yang studied for a doctorate in math in California in the 1980s but returned to China to participate in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After returning to the U.S.—where he earned a second Ph.D., at Harvard—Yang wrote prolifically about the need for democracy in China and was declared persona non grata by Beijing. In mid-2002, Yang returned to China on a borrowed passport to investigate labor unrest.

DIED. KU SANG, 85 , one of Korea's...