Chinese Internet dissident arrested

Posted by | Sep 23, 2003

This story broke on Yahoo! News at 9pm today. Details are a little light but so far a chinese government official from Dazhou has been arrested on charges that he was communicating with dissidents abroad on Internet chatrooms.
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