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Chris Smith: Call on China to free Ilham Tohti, Li Xiaobo, and all Uyghur, Chinese, and Tibetan political prisoners.

On the recordDecember 6, 2016
Call on China to free Ilham Tohti, Li Xiaobo, and all Uyghur, Chinese, and Tibetan political prisoners.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith calls for the release of political prisoners in China.

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