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• China Brooks No Dissent Ahead of Party Congress

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: China, Brooks, Dissent, Ahead, Party, Congress, Beijing, Human Rights Watch, Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jintao, Li Heping, Lu Banglie, Yao Lifa, U S Congress

  BEIJING, Oct. 12 -- Li Heping's ordeal began when two men kidnapped him on a rainy afternoon about two weeks ago, he said. It ended seven hours later, when he was dumped in a Beijing suburb after a dozen assailants had spent the evening beating him and shocking him with a cattle prod.

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• 'State Security' Arrests in China Doubled in '06, Group Reports

  Published: November 29, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: State, Security, Arrests, China, Doubled, Group, Reports, John Kamm, United States, Georgia, Gao Zhisheng, Li Datong, Li Jie, Rebiya Kadeer, San Francisco, China Democracy Party, Dui Hua Foundation, Ukraine

  BEIJING, Nov. 28 -- The number of people arrested in China for "endangering state security" more than doubled last year, showing that the government is cracking down on the political crime of dissent despite pressure to improve its human rights record before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a human rig...

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