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...Chinese communist rule remains essentially repressive. Political opposition has been virtually crushed by arrests and long jail terms, and just to make sure, the Party rounded up its critics on the eve of the congress. Undesirables were pushed out of the cities through a system of "custody and repatriation." Internet denizens are closely supervised and occasionally arrested for what they post or read...
...more than $5,000 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue; in Beverly Hills. Ryder pleaded not guilty, claiming she was under instruction from a director to research a role in an upcoming movie, although which director and film remains unclear. Prosecutors said they would not ask for a jail sentence...
...RELEASED. ASIF ALI ZARDARI, 46, husband of self-exiled Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto who has been in jail on corruption charges since 1996, to visit his ailing mother for three days; in Karachi. The temporary freedom may be a show of leniency as President Pervez Musharraf's government attempts to deter Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party from allying with Islamic fundamentalists to form a coalition government...
...Recep Tayyip Erdogan should not even be in politics. In 1998, the charismatic former mayor of Istanbul was convicted under Turkey's religious-hate-speech statutes for reciting a poem that contained the lines: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our believers are our soldiers." He served four months in jail and was banned from public office for life. Yet last week the clean-cut populist was back. His pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AK) drubbed Turkey's secular old guard in the general election, amassing nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament - albeit with only one-third...
...market and accept entrepreneurs as members. Jiang's speech came as party delegates met to choose new leaders. Vice President Hu Jintao is expected to take over as President, but Jiang is likely to preserve his power by placing allies in the ruling Politburo. COLOMBIA Get Out of Jail Free A judge freed Gilberto Rodri-guez Orejuela for good behavior, after the former boss of the notorious Cali cocaine cartel had served just seven years of his 17-year sentence for smuggling drugs to the United States. The Colombian government ordered an investigation into Judge Luz Amanda Moncada's conduct...