China: Free Wu Dianyuan And Wang Xiuying!

Posted 21 August 2008 5:24 GMT

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Topics	Freedom of Speech, Development, Governance, Law, Protest, Sport, International Relations, Digital Activism
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Special	Olympics

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On the arrest and sentence to one year of re-education labor for housing activists Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, aged 79 and 77 respectively, David Seth at Daily Kos writes: We need to call on China to free Wu Dianyuan And Wang Xiuying, and everyone else they are holding to keep ~~Berlin~~ Beijing and its Olympics beautiful.

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