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Tiananmen Square protester granted asylum in U.S. stabbed to death

A Tiananmen Square protestor turned immigration lawyer was killed in his New York City office on Monday by a client upset he would not take her case. Jinjin (Jim) Li, 66, was jailed for two years in 1989 by the Chinese government for participating in the 1989 student democracy movement at Tiananmen Square that infamously ended in a bloody massacre of protesters.

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