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"Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, China has criminally detained hundreds of people involved in defending human rights. Many have been deprived of rights to a lawyer and fair trial, and their treatment has been marred by an “alarming prevalence of torture to force confessions,” said the 2016 annual report by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an advocacy coalition of non-governmental organizations."

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No surprise here.

The Chinese government is a vicious, brutal dictatorship, and this is what vicious, brutal dictatorships do.

The only thing new here is that Xi is a little more vicious and brutal than some other Chinese dictators in the past.

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