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China Arrests Prominent Dissident on Subversion Charges

Chinese state media says a leading dissident, Liu Xiaob, has been formally arrested on charges of carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing China’s socialist system. He had has been in police custody since the end of last year. Full Article at Soldier of Fortune

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  1. This use of state security charges to punish activists for merely expressing their views must stop
    SOURCE: The New York Times 5 months ago
  2. This seems to be quite a silly way for the authorities to deal with Liu Xiaobo, who after all doesn't have any real political threat to authorities except for the fact that he has articulated positions regarding human rights
    SOURCE: Al Jazeera 5 months ago
  3. When you jail the most prominent intellectual dissident of the country, whose writing activities had effectively been tolerated for many years, it sends an unambiguous signal of political hardening
    SOURCE: The New York Times 5 months ago
  4. I think what they've done is evidence of their concern about what could happen during this year of sensitive anniversaries
    SOURCE: Wall Street Journal 5 months ago
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