Word: prisoners
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...released from prison for what Chinese officials say were medical reasons, suffered an angina attack on Tuesday and was hospitalized in Canada for heart tests before making his one-and-a-half hour public appearance at Harvard...
...Beijing Zoo electrician went from obscuregovernment worker to heralded and jailed activistin less than a year. Wei was sentenced to 15 yearsin prison...
After his release in 1993--mere days before acommittee was to decide on Beijing's bid to hostthe 2000 Olympics--Wei again ran into trouble,this time for speaking with the U.S. AssistantSecretary of State for Human Rights. He wassentenced to another 14 years of prison...
WASHINGTON: It was an ugly scene. House Government Reform Committee staffers tossing out unedited tapes containing 43 of Webster Hubbell's private prison conversations like so much animal feed, and hordes of reporters hungrily grabbing them. Even uglier: The tale the tapes told about Chairman Dan Burton's earlier, partial transcripts. "I believe this will once and for all put the lie to any accusations of editing, doctoring or out-of-context quotation," the Indiana Congressman wrote of the release earlier Monday...
...brother David came forward a few months later and did just that, the FBI got their man--and Jones got a polite letter from the agency thanking him for his help (but no reward). As Kaczynski comes before a federal judge today to be sentenced to life in prison, Jones, now an English teacher at Utah Valley State College, plans to watch the news along with the rest of the public. But he has written Kaczynski a letter to ask him one question that still bothers him: Was his theory right...