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US Citizen Ge Xun Beaten & Interrogated in Beijing

At Seeing Red in China, Yaxue Cao translates Ge Xun’s account of his recent detention and deportation (Part 2 here). Having travelled to Beijing for his mother’s funeral, Ge was held for 21 hours and violently interrogated about his involvement in various human rights causes, including online campaigning for Chen Guangcheng [zh]:Interrogator: “What is it all about? You are the initiator, c