ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Several thousand people marched through Hong Kong demanding a thorough investigation into the death of the mainland dissident, Li Wangyang.<br/> <br />The demonstrators, mostly dressed in black, carried white flowers and photographs of Li.<br/> <br />Li, who was a labor activist and Chinese dissident, was jailed for 21 years after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing.<br/> <br />He is said to have lost his sight and hearing because of the mistreatment he received while in jail.<br/> <br />He was found dead in a hospital ward in central China amidst suspicious circumstances shortly after a television interview with Hong Kong's Cable TV in which he said that he'd never regretted his fight for justice.<br/> <br />Protesters signed a petition calling on a full investigation into his death and paid their respects to Li in a makeshift shrine outside the China Liaison Office, the de facto Chinese embassy in Hong Kong.<br/> <br />"I just think it's not acceptable. That's why, I know many Chinese people would not accept this but they can't speak out, so we Hong Kong people have the duty to come and speak out.," a protester said.<br/> <br />Li Wangyang was found by his sister and brother-in-law on Wednesday apparently hanged by a bandage around his neck in his hospital room in Shaoyang city in Hunan province. Security and hospital authorities said that he had committed suicide.<br/> <br />His family, however, disputed this and said the circumstances surrounding his death were suspicious.
