Lawyer who protested in Tiananmen Square killed over work dispute

Li Jinjin, 66, was fatally stabbed in his New York law office by Xiaoning Zhang, 25, for allegedly refusing to take her on as a client

A dissident legal scholar who was jailed for two years in China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement was killed on Monday in his law office in New York, where he settled after seeking asylum in the US, police said.

Li Jinjin, 66, was stabbed to death in the city where he had long worked as an immigration lawyer, advocating publicly for people jailed or killed by Chinese authorities during the nation's democracy movement.