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...storms his vehicle and conspires to lynch him by immolation. After filming several of the mob’s abortive attempts to set the motorist ablaze, Bonilla decides to intervene and prevent the hapless driver’s execution. Bonilla is able to delay the mob until police can arrest their intended victim, and for this act of “bravery,” Bonilla receives the dubious title “hero...
...drug arrests, HUPD made eight last year on campus, but only two of those eight involved the arrest of a Harvard student...
...evil," he wrote in an essay that was one of 63 signed articles he posted on dajiyuan.com, a website popular among Chinese intellectuals. Even though Web surfers in China can't normally access dajiyuan.com$#8212;it's among a long list of sites blacklisted by government censors$#8212;police arrested Zheng last December on charges of inciting subversion. On Sept. 22, he was sentenced to seven years in prison. Beijing had once again sent a stern message to Chinese who dared to use the Internet to express their political opinions. "Zheng's arrest served as a warning to people like...
...Zheng's arrest shows, China's taming of the Internet depends more on old-fashioned muscle than on new technology. Above all, Beijing maintains control by instilling the fear in Web scribes and online businesses that they are being watched?and that, if they cross the line, they are risking their investment, their business, even their freedom. The threat is real: Human Rights Watch estimates that 60 Chinese are serving prison sentences for Internet-based political crimes, and Beijing frequently closes down websites operating on Chinese soil whose owners allow controversial postings...
That means HIPJ protesters will march off Harvard property and beyond the campus police’s jurisdiction. Riley said that Cambridge, Boston, and state police officers could arrest student protesters if the march blocks traffic...