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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. Unfair! by npistentis · · Score: 5, Funny

    How is it that some people get cool nicknames, like "the Stainless Steel Mouse" and "Iceman" and "Dozer." The best I could ever manage was Lunchbox...

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  2. Outrageous! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    She was never formally charged, but kept at Qincheng Prison for over a year.


    Never formally charged! That's outrageous! When will those Chicoms desist from such tyrannical and autocratic practices and embrace democracy, a proper Bill of Rights and the rule of law like we have here in the good ol' US of A.

  3. Translation by richie2000 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "She was never formally charged, but kept at Qincheng Prison for over a year."

    So Qincheng is the Chinese word for Guantanamo, then? Good to know.

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