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China Releases Cyber Dissident

Posted by timothy on from the no-hard-feelings-eh dept.

Ridgelift writes "Reuters UK has the story on the release of three 'cyber dissidents' just one week before a trip by visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to the United States. One of the dissidents, 23-year-old Liu Di, aka the 'Stainless Steel Mouse,' had been detained since November 2002. She wrote political satire about the ruling Communist Party and posted messages in Internet chatrooms calling for the release of online dissidents. She was never formally charged, but kept at Qincheng Prison for over a year."

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  1. Re:Truly by benna · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    We have political prisoners here to. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are two good examples.

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  2. Re:It's called compare and contrast (ie, not OT) by GMontag · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The Guantanamo prisoners are mistreated,

    How are they mistreated? Have any proof of this?

    No eye witness has made a single complaint. Some eighty-eight have been released already but not a single bad word from any of them can be found when this accusation is tossed about.

    BTW, hooding prisoners is NOT torture and neither is shackeling for transport, both accusations tossed about by the hysterical Left.

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