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China sends 80 year old women to gulag for asking to protest

This is the contemptible, animalistic regime we awarded the Olympics to. Two 79-year-old Chinese women were sentenced this week to one year of re-education by labor--in other words a death sentence. Their crime? They PETITIONED the Chinese government...

from YouTube on Tue, Aug 26 2008

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