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...Football is legal. Performing a sexually-provacative half-time show is legal. Public nudity is NOT legal. There should be jail time and/or a substantial fine for such illegal actions. S.H.V. Des Moines, Iowa...
...lately and had complained of threats against him. But now hope had surfaced once again. After repeated denials, prison authorities in Harbin, near the Russian border, had announced that Fan's husband, Zhu Shengwen, would be home by the Lunar New Year, granted medical parole after seven years in jail. All that remained were some medical exams that Zhu, who suffered from hypertension, was scheduled to undergo on the afternoon of Dec. 29, the day of Fan's visit. As a guard watched, Fan handed her husband $200 to pay for the tests. His smile reassured...
...happier days, Zhu had been vice mayor of Harbin-a man of considerable power in Heilongjiang province. But in 1997, he had fallen from grace in spectacular style when a local court sentenced him to life in jail as one of 67 officials indicted for taking bribes while supervising the conversion of Harbin's bomb shelters into an underground shopping mall. Accused of pocketing some $112,000 in bribes, Zhu attracted huge media attention on the mainland. He was fictionalized first in a best-selling book, Covering the Tracks, then in a hit TV mini-series. Now, his drama...
...arrested by the Chinese and nearly sent back to North Korea. South Korean activists played a taped plea by Lee on an evening news program, and Seoul intervened with Beijing. Jeon finally got home to South Korea last Christmas Eve. But while he was held in a Chinese jail, his son was arrested and shipped back to North Korea and his daughter-in-law and her mother disappeared, possibly seized by traffickers...
...Jaish-e-Muhammad was devoted. Official tolerance of these groups, and in some cases assistance to them, continued after Musharraf took power in a 1999 coup. The President was especially supportive of Jaish-e-Muhammad's leader, warrior-cleric Maulana Masood Azhar. When Azhar was released from an Indian jail in a prisoner exchange in December 2000, he was permitted to stage a huge rally in Karachi attended by gun-toting followers. In 2001 Musharraf even tried unsuccessfully to persuade the various Kashmiri guerrilla groups to unite under Azhar...