Chinese court hands rights lawyer 4 1/2 -year prison sentence

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Case wraps up a years-long government campaign to shatter a burgeoning civil rights movement.

 

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If we continue under the current Presidency the some thing will happen to us with our civil rights.... MAGA and get rid of Trumps!!!!

Huh guess she was wrong

No surprise here. In dictatorships, people within their borders have no rights. The world needs to wean itself off of china.

America if campus speech commissars ever get political power. (Guess which party would allow this.)

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