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National People’s Congress to introduce prison sentences for defected officials

A draft bill that will be passed soon stipulates that government employees who leave their posts without permission, defect to other countries and defect when they are abroad, may face prison terms from five years to ten years

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A foreigner’s life in a Beijing jail

A foreigner’s life in a Beijing maximum security jail.

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Henry F. Pringle’s “Bridge House Survivor”

Pringle was imprisoned by Japanese forces from October 1942 to August 1945, and Bridge House Survivor, available from Earnshaw Books, is his harrowing account of torture under the Japanese.

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