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Human Rights Official Decries China's Black Jails

Nov. 17, 2009
Human Rights Watch is calling attention to what it says are "severe rights abuses" in a network of secret detention centers in China, known as "black jails." Brad Adams, Asia director for the group, tells NPR there is no due process for these people who have been encouraged to...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch