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Mar 17, 2008, 16:17 GMT
Number of Chinese political prisoners in 2007 "highest since 1999"
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Now if we could just get the US to divulge how many political prisoners are being held by the US, that would be really nice. Clearly, US citizens being held as political prisoners number in the hundreds, but that is just the beginning. With an estimated 70 or so 'secret' prisons around the world, it is very unclear how many non-US citizens are being illegally detained. Human rights groups know of at least 39 prisoners that have disappeared while in US custody. Gitmo alone has held at least 775 detainees, which is more than all the political prisoners in China. As the world's greatest democracy, I find it disturbing that we probably hold more political prisoners than a communist country with four times our population.
I guess that depends on your view as to whether or not the detainees in Gitmo are in fact political prisoners or if they are terrorists bent on the destruction of the United States, its citizens and interests both foreign and domestic.
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