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Nancy Pelosi: “Because, you know, they say that these autocrats, the President of China for one, the most horrible form of torture that…”

On the recordJune 4, 2026
Because, you know, they say that these autocrats, the President of China for one, the most horrible form of torture that they can put on a prisoner is to tell them nobody even remembers them or cares about them or even knows why they are in prison.
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Nancy Pelosi
Democratic · California

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Remarks on human rights and political prisoners in China.

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