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> Can you cite evidence of Chinese dissidents having family members held hostage?

Not the best coming from the Guardian admittedly, but still. Top result in google.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/26/chinese-activi...

There's really nothing that goes on in China without netizens talking about it (see chinasmack.com). It'd be really interesting to hear about the Chinese perspective on this. TO be honest the article seems really lacking on details. From an objective bystander perspective, there may actually be legitimate charges levied on the family members, but it's hard to tell.

> Not the best coming from the Guardian admittedly

What is that supposed to mean?

Guardian is a newspaper generally perceived to be anti-authoritarian.

It's one of the few "left" newspapers in the UK.

I know that. I'm questioning GP's apologetic tone that implies it's wrong to link to the Guardian.

Two reasons really - one, it's a source of evidence coming from a channel which is often disregarded here as holding bias to a certain political agenda, and two - I'd normally like to offer several sources of evidence to support a point I'm making, but didn't have time at work to aggregate more links.

If you know that then you know the answer. It's an anti-authoritarian paper so it's going to be biased against an authoritarian government.

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