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Chris Smith: “This kind of illegal detention is now being widely used as jurisprudence in China.”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2015
This kind of illegal detention is now being widely used as jurisprudence in China.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Wei Jingsheng highlights the normalization of illegal detention practices in China.

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