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...They didn't undermine the festival but the protesting foreigners did show how thorough the domestic crackdown on Falun Gong has been. Most Chinese practitioners are in jail, and those still free are underground or closely watched. If they protest, their relatives or bosses are punished. "Holding local officials responsible for practitioners in their areas was a stroke of genius," says a Western diplomat who tracks religious issues. As a result, native Chinese haven't protested in Tiananmen Square in large numbers since January last year, when five people set themselves on fire...
...pressure has seemed to pay off. In the weeks before Bush's arrival, China freed three prisoners: Tibetan musicologist and Fulbright scholar Ngawang Choephel, Wang Ce of the banned China Democracy Party and a Hong Kong man, Lai Kwong-keung, who had been sentenced to two years in jail for smuggling unauthorized versions of the Bible into the mainland...
...turned into a best-selling book, In the Belly of the Beast, from suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell; in Alden, New York State. With Mailer's help Abbott, serving time for armed robbery and murder, won parole in 1981. Six weeks later he was back in jail after stabbing a waiter to death. He wrote that prisoners "cannot be subdued, only murdered...
LIBYA No Medical Plot A bizarre case against seven foreign medical workers took another twist when a Libyan judge found no evidence to support the charges against them - after three years in jail. The People's Court in Tripoli charged a Palestinian doctor and six Bulgarian medical workers last July with a plot to undermine state security by infecting children with the aids virus. Their lawyers argued that poor hospital hygiene caused the infections. The case has been referred to an ordinary criminal court...
Harvard’s janitors still have stories to tell and are willing to go to jail in order to give us a chance to hear them. They are willing to make this sacrifice because they need the community to stand with them in demanding their right to earn enough to support their families and take care of them when they are sick. We have an obligation not only to tolerate their voices, but also to join with them to amplify their call for justice...