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China: support for human rights activist

Celia in China activist weekly calls for reader’s support to human rights activist Guo Feixiong, who has been hunger-striking for 25 days in prison to protest against his torture by prison guards who want to extract a confession from him. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Fri, Jan 12 2007

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