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[igotthisguitar]

Guilt By Association
Chinese officials detain, harass and beat grass-roots activists who help foreign journalists. That presents a terrible quandary for foreign correspondents.

WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Melinda Liu
Newsweek
Updated: 5:29 p.m. ET Oct. 12, 2005

Oct. 12, 2005 - When our taxi pulled alongside dozens of Chinese cop cars, parked on a road teeming with riot police, I got really nervous. I wasn��t worried for myself. These days the worst that can happen to a foreign correspondent who goes poking around protests in China is getting roughed up by a ��rent-a-crowd,�� or getting kicked out of the country. I was worried for the Chinese acquaintance who shared my taxi—call him Jack. ��We��d better split up,�� I told him, ��or you might be detained.��

Yay Fascist China ... let's simply trade, trade, trade ... & f^&k civil rights.

[igotthisguitar]

Canadian Citizen Extradited to China
Could Be Put To Death
Tue Jun 27, 10:51 PM

Uzbekistan has extradited a Canadian citizen to China, where he faces a death sentence.

Huseyincan Celil was sentenced to death in China for human rights work.

The 37-year-old was sentenced in absentia for founding a political party to work on behalf of the Uighur people, a minority ethnic group in the Xinjiang province.

A father of six, Celil fled China in the mid-1990s. He came to Canada in 2001 from Turkey as a refugee and became a Canadian citizen.

The Burlington, Ont., resident has been held in an Uzbekistan jail since March. He was arrested in March while trying to renew his visitor's visa in the capital Tashkent.

A spokesperson for Foreign Affairs said the department informed Celil's family of the development on Monday and is trying to confirm where Celil is being held.

Celil and his wife have three children in Ontario and he has three more in China, a family friend told the Hamilton Spectator in April.

The same friend said Celil was in Uzbekistan in an attempt to try to get his three children out of China, but didn't explain how.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cbc/s/27062006/3/world-canadian-citizen-extradited-china-death.html

[Junior]

I'm more amazed that they care enough what the rest of the world thinks to do that.

No country is going to put economic sanctions on china over some internal matter.

Invading taiwan is about the only sin China could commit that could possibly rouse the int. community.

[igotthisguitar]

While i hardly disagree with your assessment, and frankly i'm not even particularly criticizing you for using it,