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Yang Jia (Chinese: 杨佳; pinyin: Yáng Jiā; 27 August 1980 – 26 November 2008) was a Chinese citizen executed for murdering six Shanghai police officers with a knife.Yang received international media attention for the public sympathy accorded to him in China where according to exiled writer Ma Jian Yang has become a sort of national hero. Beijing lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan prominently defended Yang.