The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

12 May 2006, 23:40, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chen Hua

Everyone, this has been notified in the afternoon, and is now stressed. When reprinting articles criticizing the “No Worries” theater group’s destruction of the environment, do not reprint articles linking this matter with Chen Kaige’s participation in the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony, websites may not report or track netizens’ name-signing activities concerning this matter. All articles and pages that are inconsistent with the above requirements must be speedily removed.

14 May 2006, 10:40, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to speedily delete the article “Many Hugely Corrupt High Officials Convicted to Suspended Death Sentence, Evoking Challenges,” where special subjects have already been made, please delete them speedily.

15 May 2006, 13:24, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to use the Qianlong article Beijing Network Media Association Openly Recruits 200 Network Supervision Staff to replace the present header of “Initiating the Wind of Network Civilization,” and place a summary on the main page of websites. Please reprint another Qianlong article Silicon Valley Drives the Start of ‘IT Websites Run the Web in a Civilized Manner’ Activities in the second line of the header at the same time, and put an abstract in the important news section of the news centre. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

15 May 2006 (Monday), 16:01

A communication from Chen Hua on revising the above notice:

Everyone, please delete the sentence “with the authorization of the State Council Information Office” from the present article “IT Specialist Websites Establish ‘Civilized Network Association,’” other matters are not changed.

14 May 2006, 18:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huo

The case of the “China Caijing News Magazine” journalist Yang Xiaoqing, who is suspected of extortion is in the process of being tried. In view of the fact that this case is relatively sensitive and complex, concerning information related to this case, websites are requested to only transmit Xinhua copy and information from Hunan Red Net, do not reprint articles from other sources, forums are also not to post this sort of articles.

14 May 2006, 18:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huo

Concerning information on civil servants’ salary adjustment, websites are only to reprint Xinhua copy, it is strictly prohibited to reprint information from any other source, forums are also not to reprint this sort of article, where the Dagong Daily article “Civil Servant Salary Structures Will Be Changed” and others have been reprinted, they must be immediately deleted. Management must be strengthened, all sorts of information, posts and commentary that does not conform to the above requirements must be timely deleted.

16 May 2006, 12:45, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

“Netizens Issue Information Agreement” (Discussion draft – see attachment for content):

I. In the near future, the Municipal Information Office will roll out a model for the agreement, and provide for strict management measures;

II. All websites bear the first responsibility to notify netizens to jointly abide by this agreement;

III. The text of this agreement will have comprehensive requirements in the regulatory, netizen self-discipline and propaganda areas;

IV. This agreement will at the same time protect to the largest extent the rights and interests of netizens to participate regularly in discussions;

V. Before and after the text of this agreement is made public, all relevant departments and work personnel of companies are requested to strictly grasp the scale of discussions.

19 May 2006, 8:50, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites, pay attention, all those having opened trackers on the article “Persisting in Uniting as One and Looking Ahead – Reviewing the Historical Discussion on Deng Xiaoping and Other Older Generation Revolutionaries Concerning Correctly Dealing with the ‘Cultural Revolution,’” please close trackers. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

19 May 2006, 14:54, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Immediately delete that Beijing taxi prices will rise to 2 yuan per kilometer tomorrow.

19 May 2006, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to put the information published by Qianlong Net on the taxi price adjustment (http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/19/134@3182655.htm) in the middle of the important news section, do not make it into a header, close trackers.

19 May 2006, 17:02, Fan Tao

No online reports are to be made of the film Summer Palace that participated in the Cannes Film Festival without permission, do not reprint this sort of information or comments, websites are also not to interview or report on the main creators of Summer Palace. If the content of articles on the Cannes Film Festival involves the film Summer Palace, websites are also requested to reprint or report this, this sort of article is not to be posted on forums, blogs or trackers.

20 May 2006, 18:37, Fan Tao, Municipal Information Office

Please immediately close news trackers on reports concerning the repatriation of Lai Changxing.

Please delete information that the original version of the Mao Zedong portrait will be sold at auction.

2006年5月北京网管办发出的禁令（二）

2006年5月12日23 时40分北京市新闻办公室 陈华

各位，下午通知这，再强调一下。转发批评“无极”剧组破坏环境稿件时，不转发把这一事件与陈凯歌参与2008年奥运会开幕式挂钩的稿件，网站不报道、贴发网民有关此事的签名活动。凡与上述要求不一致的稿件、页面要迅速撤除。

2006年5月14日10时40分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网迅速删除”多名巨贪高官被判死缓引发质疑”一稿,已经做专题请迅速删除.

2006年5月15日13 时24分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网用千龙网的稿件《北京网络媒体协会公开征集200名网络监督员》（http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825 /2006/05/15/178@3171683.htm）替换目前“大兴网络文明之风”的头条，并在网站首页做提要。请同时在专题二条位置放千龙网另一 稿件《硅谷动力发起“IT网站文明办网”活动 》（http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/15/178@3171702.htm）并在新闻中心要闻区做 提要。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006-5-15 (星期一) 16:01

转达陈华对上一个通知的修改：

各位，请将目前“IT专业网站成立“文明办网联盟”一稿中，“经国家新闻办公室授权”这句话去掉，其他不变

2006年5月14日18时 北京市新闻办公室 霍

《中国产经新闻报》记者阳小青涉嫌敲诈勒索一案，目前正在审理中。鉴于此案比较敏感、复杂，有关此案的消息，请网站只转发新华社通稿和湖南红网的消息，不转发其他来源的稿件，论坛也不贴发此类文章。

2006年5月14日18时 分 北京市新闻办公室 霍

有关公务员工资调整的消息，网站只转发新华社通稿，严禁转发其他任何来源消息，论坛也不转发此类文章，已转的大公报“公务员工资结构将有改变”等文要立即撤除。要加强管理，凡与上述要求不符的各类消息、帖文、评论要及时删除。

2006年5月16日12时45分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

《网民发布信息协议》（讨论稿—–内容见附件）

一，近期市新闻办将出台协议范本，规定严厉管理措施；

二，各网站承担通知网民共同遵守该协议的第一责任人；

三，该协议文本具有法规、网民自律与宣传方面的综合要求；

四，该协议同时包含最大限度保护网民正常参与讨论的权益；

五，该协议文本出台前后请公司各相关部门及工作人员严格掌握言论尺度；

2006年5月19日8时50分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

各网注意：凡对《坚持团结一致向前看——重温邓小平等老一辈革命家关于正确对待“文化大革命”历史的论述》一文开有跟帖的，请关闭跟帖。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月19日14时54分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

北京出租车租价明起上调为2元/公里，马上删除。

2006年5月19日16 时 分 范涛

千龙网已经发布出租车调价消息（http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/19/134@3182655.htm）请各网放要闻中部，不做大头条，关闭跟帖。

2006年5月19日17时02分 范涛

对未经批准到戛纳电影节参评的电影《颐和园》网上不作报道，不转载此类消息、评论，网站也不采访报道《颐和园》主创人员。如戛纳电影节稿件涉及电影《颐和园》的内容，也请网站不要转载、报道，论坛、博客、跟帖不贴发此类稿件。

2006年5月20日18时 37 分 范涛 市网宣办

关于遣返赖昌星的报道，请立即关闭新闻跟贴。

请删除毛泽东画像母本将被拍卖的消息。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 24, 2012 (here).

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Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The original publication date is noted after the directives; the date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.

The series opens with the very first “directive” posted on CDT Chinese:

Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China: All information concerning the Yuanhua case in Fujian must come from the Central News Office. Reporting must be unified. Do not produce “side stories” or distribute news through improper channels. Do not use this case as a soapbox for other matters. Do not spread news through unusual methods. Do not reprint news reporting from overseas or foreign media. (August 30, 2000)

中宣部：对福建省厦门远华案案情审理的报导，必须由中央新闻办审稿，作统一报导，不搞「小道」消息，及非正常渠道消息，不准搞借题发挥，不准以不正常手段取得消息外传，不准转载海外、外国传媒的有关报导。

Yuanhua Group, a foreign import business based in the Xiamen Special Economic Zone in Fujian Province, was once the darling of China’s nascent capitalist economy. Founded by Lai Changxing in 1994, Yuanhua brought luxury cars, oil and cigarettes into the country. Lai also masterminded a smuggling ring that averted hundreds of billions of yuan in taxes. Lai eventually fled to Hong Kong, then Canada, where he remained from 1999 until April 2012. The Canadian government agreed to extradite him on the condition that he not receive the death penalty if found guilty. Lai is currently serving a life sentence.

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Related to Zhao Pu: support + Zhao Pu, Zhao Pu + suspended from duties, Zhao Pu + suspended from post
赵普事件*：声援+赵普，赵普+停职，赵普+停岗

On April 9, CCTV news anchor Zhao Pu posted a warning on his Weibo: “Text message from an investigative reporter: Do not eat yogurt (the thick kind) or jelly, especially children. Their contents are truly frightening. I won’t speak about it in detail.”

The post was forwarded 130,000 times before it was eventually removed. (Global Times published a slap on the wrist.) Zhao has not appeared on his program for almost two weeks, prompting netizens to speculate that he has been suspended from his duties because of this post. Read more about the incident from CDT Chinese.

Other Hot Topics: GKL (short for Gu Kailai), Surprise-Attack Comes (“Turn Surprise-Attack Comes” [拨袭来] sounds like Bo Xilai), power struggle
其他热点词：GKL（网上常见的谷开来拼音缩写），袭来（拨袭来，网上常见的薄熙来别称），权斗

More Censored Words: announcement, special police, Lai Changxing
更多禁词：公告，特警，赖昌星

Note: All Chinese-language words are tested using simplified characters. The same terms in traditional characters occasionally return different results.

CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on Sina Weibo search. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We welcome readers to contribute to this project so that we can include the most up-to-date information.

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Hot Keywords:

• Xiāo Yǒng [肖勇]，Ōu Róngguì 欧荣贵，Yáng Chóng [杨崇]，Liú Shānjuān [刘珊娟]，Huáng Wénxūn [黄文勋] (These five were detained for demonstrating in Guangdong. They were calling on Hu Jintao to make his assets publicly known.)
• Zhāng Xīnqǐ [张新起] (Zhang is the newly appointed mayor of Qingdao. He has had lawns dug up and planted densely with new trees, earning him the Weibo nickname “Tree Planting Magnate [zhòngshù dàwáng 种树大王]。”)

Hot Keyword Retest:

• Fāng Lìzhī [方励之] (physicist and democracy activist who passed away on April 6)

• Lài Chāngxīng [赖昌星] (businessman who was extradited from Canada last June and is currently on trial)

Other:

• gov

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CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on Sina Weibo search. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We welcome readers to contribute to this project so that we can include the most up-to-date information.

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Mr Lai built his empire in the exuberant early days of China’s economic miracle. After quitting his first job, as a well digger, he started an automotive parts factory in 1979.

In a few short years, his business quickly spread, into shipping, cigarettes, paper, textiles, umbrellas, finance, and consumer electronics. He then started up an import-export company which the Chinese authorities claim was merely a front for a spectacular smuggling ring that shipped in everything from Mercedes-Benz saloons to pornography.

In one case, uncovered by investigators, Mr Lai’s ships allegedly brought in more than ten million packets of cigarettes in 1999, dodging £11 million of duty by disguising them as wood shavings.

Altogether, he is accused of earning £4 billion from smuggling in just the three years from 1996 to 1999, a sum almost equivalent to Xiamen’s annual GDP.

The Guardian has more to say on the sordid past of Lai Changxing, the criminal ring he founded, and relays an alternative public appraisal of the man:

State news agency Xinhua said the court in Xiamen, a southern coastal city, was trying Lai for “masterminding a criminal ring engaged in smuggling and bribery”, which reportedly cost the country $3.6bn in unpaid tax. Six hundred people were investigated in connection with the case and 300 punished, according to Xinhua. At least two of those – the former chief of the Xiamen branch of the Commercial and Industrial Bank and former section chief of the city’s customs bureau – were executed, while 11 were given suspended death sentences or jailed for life. Many believed Lai’s connections went far higher.

But some in Xiamen compared Lai, 53, to Robin Hood for his generosity to many in his home town. He was said to have been a lavish tipper who even bought equipment for local police.

China, infamous for it’s widespread practice of capital punishment, promised the Canadian court that Lai would not be executed if returned home for a “fair trial.” BBC reports:

China has reassured Canada he will not face the death penalty if convicted.

Canada, which does not practise capital punishment, forbids the extradition of prisoners to countries where they may be executed.

Correspondents say the case had soured diplomatic relations between the two countries.

[...][Lai's] lawyers had argued that at least seven of his associates have died or disappeared in China’s justice system. They said he would face torture and execution in China as a scapegoat for high-level officials who were involved in corrupt practices.

China is believed to carry out more executions a year than any other country, but, in this case, has promised Canada that Mr Lai will receive a fair trial and will not face the death penalty.

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Canada’s Federal Court cleared the way  for the extradition of Lai Changxing,  dismissing concerns that he could be tortured or executed once he arrives back in China.

Lai’s deportation would remove a thorn that has long plagued Sino-Canadian relations. Beijing has sought the deportation of Lai, accusing him of running a multibillion-dollar smuggling operation in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s in one of China’s biggest political scandals in decades.

Lai fled to Canada with his family in 1999 and claimed refugee status, saying the allegations against him were politically motivated.

“The Chinese government’s stance on Lai Changxing returning to China to stand trial is clear. We welcome the Canadian court’s decision,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The verdict was issued just after the visit of Canada’s foreign minister, John Baird, to China, where he said “both the Canadian people and the Chinese people don’t have a lot of time for white collar fraudsters”.

China promised Canada in a diplomatic note that Lai would not be tortured or executed and that Canadian officials would have access to him.

The Chinese government alleges that Lai was the mastermind behind the country’s “largest smuggling ring ever” and routinely bought off CCP officials. From the Telegraph:

According to the Chinese government, Lai was involved in the “biggest smuggling ring ever”. When the ring was broken up in the late 1990s, a haul of $6.8 billion (£4.2 billion) of goods was discovered and 14 people were given the death penalty, with eight of them executed and four of them committing suicide.

The smuggling ring in the seaside city of Xiamen saw whole tankers full of crude oil slipped into the country, as well as fleets of luxury cars, while Lai allegedly bought off Communist party members, the police, customs officers and the banks with cash, school fees for their children and houses. It was a stark illustration of the corruption that continues to rot the party.

The headquarters of Lai’s Yuanhua group was a seven-story building known as the Red Mansion, after a Chinese literary classic, and which the Chinese state media described as a decadent palace, full of chandeliers, lavish furniture, and dozens of beautiful young women who were skilled in “singing, dancing and massage”.

An initial attempt to break up Lai’s ring was rebuffed, with investigators’ phones being tapped and all leads coming to a dead end.

In the end, Beijing had to send around 1,000 officers to take over Lai’s headquarters.

Around 200 Communist party officials were punished, and another 150 faced criminal charges. But Lai, the alleged mastermind, slipped free, running to Canada after being tipped off about his imminent arrest. He left behind an 88-floor skyscraper he was building, and his professional football team, the Xiamen Red Lions.

Lai is being sent back because he has repeatedly been denied refugee status in Canada. Some pundits also believe that this is an attempt by the current Canadian government to improve diplomatic and business relations with China . From the Economist:

Giving China the benefit of the doubt on human rights is a relative novelty for Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. Shortly after he won office in 2006, Mr Harper pledged that Canada “would not sell out” in talking about human rights with China. His first foreign minister accused China of industrial espionage. When Mr Harper visited China in 2009, his hosts chided him for waiting almost four years before coming.

That visit marked the start of a courtship. China is a friend and “important ally”, Mr Baird said when he visited the country this month. Though he stressed that he could not interfere in Mr Lai’s case, he added that “the Canadian people and the Chinese people don’t have a lot of time for white-collar fraudsters.”

This change of tune owes much to Canada’s search for new export markets to compensate for the stagnation of its main economic partner, the United States. China’s share of Canadian exports has almost doubled in the past five years (though it still amounts to only 3.3% of the total). China has become an important market for Canadian fuels and softwood lumber. Investment by Chinese state companies, once reviled, is now welcomed. This month a Chinese oil company bought OPTI Canada, an ailing tar-sands producer, for C$2.1 billion ($2.2 billion).

Like others, Canada also sees ties with China as a potential source of leverage with the United States. “There is a real sense in Canada now that the Americans take us for granted and that Canada has to strengthen relations with China in order to get more respect in the US,” says David Emerson, a former foreign minister who is now a consultant. Delays by the American State Department in granting approval for a cross-border pipeline to carry crude from the tar sands to the Gulf Coast have prompted calls for a pipeline from Alberta to the west coast, for shipment to China.

Recently the U.S. government has also indicated that it is working closely with Chinese authorities to return Chinese fugitives living in America. From Reuters:

U.S. Department of Commerce General Counsel Cameron Kerry, in Beijing on a five-day visit focused on anti-corruption and commercial rule of law issues, said that “there’s good cooperation” between Chinese and U.S. prosecutors “in finding ways to repatriate corrupt officials or ill-gotten assets”.

“Our prosecutors on both sides yesterday discussed a number of specific cases and they look forward to increasing cooperation on those cases,” Kerry told reporters at a briefing.

Some of these cases include U.S. investigations into alleged bribes paid to Chinese officials by companies from the United States or registered in the United States, under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, he added.

He declined to be more specific and said he was not in a position to comment on whether the United States was close to extraditing anyone.

“The United States currently does not have an extradition treaty with China, but there are other mechanisms available to pursue fugitives,” Kerry said.

“Most fugitives from justice immigrated to the United States illegally, many of them have been repatriated through our immigration laws, and deportation, under those laws.”

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Lai has been rejected as a refugee in Canada after claiming asylum based on fears that he will be executed if forced to return to face criminal charges for corruption and smuggling.

Federal court judge Michel Shore dismissed in a ruling Thursday night Lai’s last avenue to avoid deportation, which could happen as early as today.

Shore said a stay could not be granted because Lai failed to prove the Chinese won’t keep its promise. She said the Chinese government has given assurances to Ottawa that Lai will be treated fairly in its justice system and will not be given the death penalty.

“The life of the applicant is in the Chinese government’s hands,” wrote Shore. “The assurances are present. A new contractual government-to-government climate has been created by the assurances. . . . The future, yet to be seen by both countries and others, will stand as witness to the outcome.”

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Beijing has criticised a decision by Canada to grant a work permit to a Chinese citizen charged with smuggling and considered one of the country’s most wanted fugitives, the Beijing News reported Saturday.

“Canada’s conduct has prompted the strong disapproval of the Chinese people and China is extremely concerned by the Canadian decision,” the newspaper quoted foreign ministry spokesman Jiang Yu as saying.

Yu said that although Canada had insisted it was not a refuge for criminals, “the attitude shown by Canada is totally different”.

Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Thursday that authorities had decided to give Lai Changxing a visa. Canada’s courts have refused to deport him citing concerns over China’s treatment of prisoners.

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I didn’t know I was a surveillance target until the day I walked into a hotel in China’s Fujian province. I was pushing past half a dozen workmen changing lightbulbs in the glum but busy lobby when a uniformed man stepped in front of me. Blue jacket, creased trousers, braided epaulets, peaked cap: government security officer. Politely, he asked whether I would mind answering a few questions. He stood erect, with the manicured swagger of a corporate CEO. Next to him, a gangly plainclothes colleague gave me a so-you-thought-we-wouldn’t-catch-you look.

(...)
Read the rest of The Great Firewall: China’s Misguided ” and Futile ” Attempt to Control What Happens Online – Oliver August (147 words)

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The Canadian official who approved Lai’s removal order failed to properly consider Lai’s claim that he would be tortured, a Federal Court judge ruled…

The slow pace of Lai’s deportation case — which has gone on for seven years — has become a thorn in Chinese-Canadian relations even though Ottawa has supported Beijing’s efforts to have him returned…

Lai is accused of running a multibillion-dollar operation that bribed officials and police to avoid taxes and duties on goods ranging from oil to cigarettes that were smuggled into China’s Fujian province in the 1990s.
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See Time Magazine’s cover story Smuggler’s Blues,

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Read the rest of Smuggler Lai Wins Canadian Court Reprieve – AP (127 words)

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China’s most famous fugitive has spoken publicly for the first time about his relationship with a senior member of the Chinese politburo, Jia Qinglin, a controversial figure whose family has long fended off corruption allegations.

The fugitive, Lai Changxing, is fighting extradition from exile in Canada where he fled in 1999 after being accused of being the mastermind of a billion-dollar smuggling and graft racket in Fujian province.

In comments in an interview with Hong Kong’s Chinese-language Asia Week magazine, Mr Lai said he had known Mr Jia, his wife and his secretary and driver in Fujian province in the 1990s. [Full Text]

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Lai Changxing is the smuggling kingpin involved in the greatest known corruption case in the history of the People’s Republic of China. He is presently fighting a deportation order in Canada and part of his argument is based upon the fact that Canada does not deport people to countries where they could face possible execution. The following is the translation of an article in Asia Weekly (Yahzhou Zhoukan) in which Lai Changxing discloses his intention to publish his memoirs….

Lai Changxing told Asia Weekly that he has decided to write a book and then tell his personal experiences and the truth about the Yuanhua case: “I want to let more people in China know about how I grew up, how I conducted my business and what I did step by step.” He said that his business, his inner thoughts and his deals with senior Chinese Communist officials “are known only to myself. I was not a murderer or arsonist like what the Chinese authorities say. I was just a businessman. The Chinese people are only listening to the one-sided story of the Chinese government. They do not know what I am really like as a person.” [Full Text]

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The Supreme Court in Canada has refused a plea for refugee status by a man described by the Chinese government as its most wanted fugitive.

Lai Changxing, who has been fighting to stay in Canada for the past six years, is accused of running a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring in the 1990s.

He has lost repeated bids for refugee status for himself and his family.

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