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There was only one report filed from an overseas deadline on all three networks combined. No, not the continuing political crisis in Zimbabwe. No, not the NATO Summit in Romania. No, not the trial of the alleged airline liquid bomb plotters in England. It was ABC's assignment of Stephanie Sy (embargoed link) to the trial of Hu Jia in Beijing. Hu, a well-known political dissident, had been harassed by authorities, although not jailed, when he protested the People's Republic's policies on AIDS and Tibet. It was only when he started criticizing the Olympic Games that the authorities cracked down: a 42 month prison sentence. As the torch was lit in Olympia, Sy added, a protestor named Yang Chunlin was sentenced to a five year term for collecting 10,000 names on a petition We Want Human Rights not the Olympics.
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