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...SENTENCED. CAI XIAOHONG, former secretary-general of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong; to 15 years in prison for passing state secrets to British intelligence; in Guangzhou, China. Cai, who was arrested last year, is the highest-ranking Chinese official to be convicted of spying for a Western government. The South China Morning Post reported that he was paid more than $700,000 by the British Secret Service for sharing classified information, including the itinerary for former President Jiang Zemin's 2001 visit to Hong Kong...
...that are ripe for the taking are the debate on criminal justice and faith-based initiatives. The proposition in California that sought to reform their infamous “three strikes” laws was defeated, but the support may be present nationwide to curtail the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Curbing mass incarceration would certainly curry favor with black voters, and it wouldn’t even have to be cast as an explicitly racial issue. The unchecked growth of the penal system should be construed as a fiscal burden and ineffective crime deterrent. What should help Democrats...
That same year, he would also publish a prose work, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (1972), which the Swedish Academy called “a literary work of the first rank...
...Soyinka still feels bitter about his extrajudicial imprisonment, he does not show it. In fact, he reflects on those two years with astonishing forbearance. He proudly reveals that the official who held him in prison is now a close friend of his. “You find that those who carry out orders are sometimes far more assiduous than the person at the top,” he explains...
After his release from prison in 1970, Soyinka fled Nigeria. “I just needed a break from the environment,” he says. Over the next 20 years, he would spend time in and out of the country, teaching drama and literature at universities and writing, all the while remaining active in numerous political and civic organizations...