China's Broken Olympic Promises: Detained Activist's Kafkaesque Nightmare - SPIEGEL ONL... - 0 views
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The forms are harmless, containing standard information such as a client's name, age, address and marital status, and they were all stamped to indicate that they had been received by the judicial authority.
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It will probably take some time before we have liberated ourselves from thousands of years of tradition.
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And he must have believed the promises of his government and the Olympic family, the promises that the time had finally come when he could speak his mind freely, for all the world to hear, and with no fear of repercussions. On the morning of his arrest, on Aug. 11, 2008, he said: "There are great powers that oppose me. But I am not alone. We are many.