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Published 10/23/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - Washington said Thursday it hopes Beijing will move to free Chinese dissident Hu Jia from prison, after the European Parliament awarded him a human rights prize on the eve of an EU-Asia summit.
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