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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by CydeWeys on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:15AM (#18903531)
You don't need to be a drug smuggler to be held as a political hostage there. Look at the other links in this thread of other people being snatched as hostages for far less.

In a country without rule of law it's trivial to fabricate some excuse to grab someone if you want to. Your only recourse is to not go there at all, as whether you get snatched if you are there is outside your control. "Don't smuggle drugs" isn't sufficient.

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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by sverige on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:32AM (#18903682)
Especially in a country that is currently holding hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of its own citizens as political hostages. You don't have to be a foreigner to be subject to capricious arrest and imprisonment in China.
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