BEIJING, Nov 17: A Chinese activist said today that he had written to President Jiang Zemin pleading for the release of other pro-democracy campaigners, including Wang Dan.

``I wanted to pressurise the President, to express to him the wishes of China's pro-democracy activists,'' Qin Yongmin said a day after China freed dissident Wei Jingsheng on medical parole. A Hong Kong-based human rights group also said today that another dissident, Lin Xinshu, was detained briefly yesterday.

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