Beijing - China yesterday released US researcher Mr Daja Meston, who was seriously injured while apparently trying to escape Chinese security officials, a US embassy official said.
Mr Meston (29), was one of two Western researchers detained last week for allegedly conducting illegal investigations into a World Bank project to relocate 60,000 people near Tibet.
Mr Gabriel Lafitte, an Australian research associate at the University of Melbourne in his early 50s who was detained with Mr Meston, was released at the weekend and returned to Australia.
