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not we comprehend why. Meanwhile, people are being hung upside down in Chinese prisons and tortured for the crime of meditating.

Two years after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, I was asked by a young man named Shen Tong to be a part of a Congressional human rights delegation to China. Shen had been one of the student leaders of 1989. He had managed to escape China in the aftermath and was attending Amherst College. The main purpose of our delegation was to raise questions about the physical condition of a number of political prisoners from whom nothing had been heard. So I finally dug my way to China.

“There are no political prisoners in China,” we were told again and again by high ranking government officials. “In

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