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Perched on the arm of a red leather sofa in the Parlor Room of the Phillips Brooks House (PBH), Emily L.A. Maw told the story of Travis Hayes, who spent 10 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of second-degree murder...
...CORRUPTION 18 Prison sentence, in years, handed down to former Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu for corruption charges involving $4.8 billion in stolen cash 22 Number of members of the National People's Congress, China's legislative body, who have been ousted in the past five years on corruption charges...
...exile movement seeking greater rights for her roughly 9 million compatriots who live in Xinjiang. Kadeer was once a rich businesswoman in Xinjiang but fell afoul of the authorities and served a six-year jail sentence for revealing state secrets to foreigners. Two of her sons are still in prison in China. "It's a Chinese tool to have the Han feel a sense of animosity toward Uighurs," Kadeer says. "Look at it now! They have extracted all the natural resources and the oil. We're left in the darkness...
CORRUPTION 18 years Prison sentence handed down to former Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu for corruption charges involving $4.8 billion in stolen cash...
...calling attention to the issue of illegal immigrants. The problem is not that McCarthy’s movie has a message, but that he communicates it in a multitude of tedious ways. When Mouna comments that the detention facility “doesn’t look like a prison,” Vale replies, “I think that’s the point.” In this scene, McCarthy, who also wrote the film, seems to use his characters as little more than mouthpieces. During one of Vale’s visits to the detention facility...