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Benjamin Gilman: “I am very concerned that Chinese-American citizens and U.S. permanent residents of Chinese ancestry are being illegally…”

On the recordJune 25, 2001
I am very concerned that Chinese-American citizens and U.S. permanent residents of Chinese ancestry are being illegally held by the government of the People's Republic of China. There is no rule of law in that country. In China a person is not innocent until proven guilty. A person's guilt or innocence is predetermined by the government, and, as we all know, thousands of arrests and imprisonments are carried out for political reasons. Let's be perfectly clear about this. Government sponsored kidnapping is terrorism. It is no less a crime than what is being committed by terrorists against Americans currently being held in the Philippines.
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Benjamin Gilman
New York
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Addressing the detention of American citizens and residents in China.

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