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A Tweet, A Year In A Labor Camp, And Now An Appeal
npr.org 4 days, 23 hours agoOne irreverent tweet about a powerful Chinese politician was enough to get Fang Hong sent to a Chinese labor camp for a year. Encouraged by the recent fall of that politician, Bo Xilai, Fang is appealing his case and attacking the system of re-education through labor.
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Exile Media Soaring Over China's Leadership Scandal
seattletimes.nwsource.com 4 days, 6 hours agoChina is in the midst of a once-in-a-decade leadership transition, which has precipitated a political schism and a cascade of salacious scandals. But hardly a word of it appears in the mainland news media, forcing political junkies to look offshore, to sensational , but sometimes right-on , exile news sources for their fix.










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