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Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
CHINESE DISSIDENTS SAID TO BE SUFFERING IN JAIL [RFA]
China’s political prisoners, many of whom are serving lengthy jail terms for trying to start a political party using legal channels, are subject to neglect, malnourishment, and ill-treatment inside the country’s jails, a group of activists has written to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, RFA’s Mandarin service reports. A group of activists from the outlawed China Democracy Party (CDP) issued an open letter to Cheney and his Chinese counterpart Zeng Qinghong at the start of Cheney’s two-day visit to Beijing, which is expected to focus on Taiwan, North Korea, Iraq, and economic and trade relations. [more]
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China's Dissidents Turning Homeward. With the passage of time memories of cataclysmic events like Tiananmen Square 1989, Gulja 1997 and countless others of the 80's and 90's in China have begun to fade. Those in exile from China's oppression in countless countries around the world are now showing the effects of age and family responsibility. Too busy many with the daily grind of life to "man the barricades" with the zeal and [China Letter : News-Human Rights-Government-Economy-Law]
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