Dissidents Held During Clinton Beijing Visit

More than a dozen Chinese dissidents have been questioned, followed or detained during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's weekend visit to Beijing, fellow activists said Saturday. Full Story »

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by Patricia Blochowiak - Feb. 21, 2009

I'll never forget the Beijing cab driver who told me that the government had told them that the women attending the women's conference in Huai Rou were all prostitutes and that we might take our clothes off at any time. He was a cab driver, so he had a little more sophistication than one who might agree to that. And the fact that my friends in Hunan were not allowed to buy train tickets to come and visit me was another sign of both their paranoia and their control. The ... More »

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