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Fri 08 Aug 2008'Mr Rogge . . . come just once to Beijing No 2 Prison to see what it is like'
CHINA:HE DEPU is one of China's most prominent political prisoners. He took part in the Democracy Wall Movement in 1979, the pro-democracy movement in 1989, and a signature campaign for the activist Wang Dan between 1993 and 1995. He set up a magazine, Beijing Youth, and in 1998 helped form the banned China Democracy Party.
He was detained in November 2002 after signing an open letter calling for political reform and was sentenced to eight years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power".
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