Police have told family members that dissident Zhang Lin received the 3 year coal mining labor camp sentence because he had too much contact with foreign reporters. Zhang Lin's activities include fighting for worker and peasant rights, and making plans to mark the 5th anniversary of the Military crackdown on the '89 Tiananmen square Democracy Movement. Zhang Lin, 31 year old physicist, is the second dissident in less than a month to be sentenced to a labor camp. No legal proceedings are known to have been started. Zhang Lin's wife, Ji Xiao, told VOA by telephone from Anhui that her husband began a hunger strike late last month to protest plans to send him to a coal mining labor camp in Anhui. (EuroTibet News N·2)