Amnesty International's website is unreachable for journalists covering the Olympics one day after the organization issued a harsh report criticizing China's failure to make good on promises to improve human rights leading up to the Olympics. A more... ...full story at Shanghaiist
from Shanghaiist on Wed, Jul 30 2008
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