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...those acquitted was Gasoub al Abrash Ghalyoun, for whom the prosecution HAD also demanded 74,000 years. The court found that there was insufficient proof that his video films of the WTC and other prominent U.S. buildings were acts of surveillance in a terrorist plot. Taysir Alony, the al-Jazeera journalist who interviewed Osama Bin Laden shortly after 9/11, was found guilty of membership of a terrorist organization and sentenced to seven years instead of the nine demanded by the prosecutor...
...Abigail Abrash, the center's program director, expressed concern about Jiang's presence at Harvard...
...would be a cruel irony if Harvard, an institution standing for the free exchange of ideas, gives Jiang a platform to voice his policies," Abrash said in a phone interview yesterday. "It is very troubling that Harvard will give the implication of approval to the leader of a country that suppresses the freedom of expression...
Since the discussion of Most Favored Nation trade status for China was resurrected in 1993--and particularly since the link was broken between U.S. policies on human-rights and economic issues--the center has observed a backsliding in human rights, particularly in freedom of speech, Abrash said...
...policy is not seen as credible by the Chinese government in terms of our concerns regarding human rights and our willingness to use policy tools to stand by [political dissenters], like the administration pledged to do," Abrash said...