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...confident that what I did was all legal and that the PSB had no legal basis to defend its arrests. After seriously thinking things over, I decided that I must never retreat. Those who enforce law must have respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Voice from Peking's Gulag | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...either a coward or the worst kind of human being." On Nov. 11, 1979, Liu went to "democracy wall" in Peking to sell some of the 1,000 copies of the Wei trial transcript he had mimeographed. Agents of China's secret police, the Public Security Bureau (PSB) arrested some of the buyers. Liu then went to the PSB headquarters in Peking to seek redress for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Voice from Peking's Gulag | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...insistence on the law and on legality enraged the PSB interrogators. Finally one of them said angrily: "Now that you are here, you don't have to answer our questions. But as long as you refuse to answer our questions, you'll never be allowed to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Voice from Peking's Gulag | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...importance enabled Chan to avenge his father's death. He gave the name of the killer to Tan Chengwen, chief of the regional PSB, and says matter-of-factly: "Tan sent off the order for his execution. No trial was necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Refugee from the Tiger Squad | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...raced between the guard towers. Hopping a freight train bound for Canton, Chan hid out with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver to Changsha and Wuhan. His boldest act was his escape to Hong Kong. He stole a government seal, used it to stamp a letter "authorizing" him to requisition a Land Rover from a PSB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Refugee from the Tiger Squad | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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