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<font size="3">【速度2-18】</font><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><strong><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Train Collision in China Kills 32</font></font></span></strong></div><br /></strong></font></font></div><br /></div><br /><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><font size="1"><span style="color:black;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">By</font></span><span style="color:black;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/letters/email_letter.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">AP / SCOTTMcDONALD</span></a> Saturday, July 23, 2011</font></span></font><span style="color:black;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /></font><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体"><span style="background-color:aqua;">计时</span></font></font></span><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:aqua;">1</span></font></font></span><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(BEIJING) — A Chinese bullet train crashedinto another high-speed train that had stalled after being struck by lightningSaturday in eastern China, causing four carriages to fall off a viaduct andkilling at least 32 people and injuring 191 others, state media reported.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The first train was traveling from theZhejiang provincial capital of Hangzhou when it lost power in the lightningstrike and was hit from behind by the second train in Wenzhou city at 8:27 p.m.(1230 GMT), the official Xinhua News Agency said. The provincial emergencyoffice told Xinhua that at least 32 people were killed and 191 injured.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font face="Georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2009451,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1">(See pictures of China's high-speed rail program.)</font></span></a></font></span></strong><span style="color:black;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">A preliminary investigation by theZhejiang provincial government released early Sunday showed that four coachesof the moving train fell off the viaduct, Xinhua said. The cars plunged about65 to 100 feet (20 to 30 meters) from the elevated section of track, Xinhuasaid. Photos taken at the scene showed one badly damaged car lying on its sideby the viaduct and another car leaning against the viaduct after landing on itsend.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Xinhua quoted an unidentified witness assaying "rescuers have dragged many passengers out of the coach that fellon the ground." The trains involved are "D" trains, the firstgeneration bullet train with an average speed of about 95 miles (150 kilometers)per hour and not as fast as the new Beijing-Shanghai line.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Xinhua said the train hit by lightning was"D3115." It said the Ministry of Railways confirmed that it was hitfrom behind by train "D301."</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">China has spent billions of dollars andplans more massive spending to link the country with a high-speed rail network.Recently, power outages and other malfunctions have plagued the showcasehigh-speed line between Beijing and Shanghai since it opened on June 30.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font face="Georgia, serif"><a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/05/chinese-train-hits-a-record-breaking-300-mph/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1">(See the train that reached 300 MPH.)</font></span></a></font></span></strong></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif">(</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">字数</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif">302)</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体"><span style="background-color:aqua;">计时</span></font></font></span><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:aqua;">2</span></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Official plans call for China's bullettrain network to expand to 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) of track this yearand 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) by 2020.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The huge spending connected with the railexpansion also has been blamed for corruption, and Railways Minister Liu Zhijunwas dismissed this spring amid an investigation into unspecified corruptionallegations. No details have been released about the allegations against him,but news reports say they include kickbacks, bribes, illegal contracts andsexual liaisons.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://techland.time.com/2011/07/22/why-the-iphone-3gs-is-worth-buying/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Why the iPhone 3GS May Still Be Worth Buying</font></span></a></font></font></span></strong></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">By <a href="http://techland.time.com/author/jarednewman/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">Jared Newman</span></a> on July 22, 2011</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Turns out, smartphone buyers still clamorfor the iPhone 3GS.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The proof is in the latest earningsstatements of AT&T and Verizon, which showed that the former activated <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388922,00.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">1.3 million moreiPhones</span></a> than the latter.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Although AT&T didn't break down itsiPhone sales figures by model, one explanation for the discrepancy is thatAT&T still sells the iPhone 3GS for $49 with a two-year contract, whileVerizon only sells the iPhone 4.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MORE: <a href="http://techland.time.com/2011/01/06/att-slashes-iphone-3g-price-to-49/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">AT&T SlashesiPhone 3GS Price To $49</span></a>)</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">It may be tempting to dismiss iPhone 3GSbuyers as clueless late adopters, but there are actually a few reasons why thetwo year-old phone may still be worth buying today. Let's count 'em:</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Smoothness</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The iPhone 3GS doesn't have the latestprocessor or the most RAM, but you're not likely to notice while scrollingthrough the home screen or browsing the web. In terms of smoothness, the iPhone3GS can even hold its own against some of the latest Android smartphones. Rawspecs aren't everything.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">(字数</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif">262</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">)</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif"></font></font></span></strong></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体"><span style="background-color:aqua;">计时</span></font></font></span><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:aqua;">3</span></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Solid design</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Apple's iPhone 4 might be prettier to lookat, but the gently-curved design of the iPhone 3GS fits more neatly into thepalm of your hand. And hey, there are no <a href="http://techland.time.com/2010/07/16/lack-of-cases-are-to-blame-for-iphone-4-reception-issues-says-apple/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">antenna death gripissues</span></a> to worry about.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The latestsoftware</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Software is the most important element ofany smartphone, and the iPhone 3GS supports not only the current iOS 4, but theupcoming iOS 5 that arrives this fall -- the one that includes iMessages,improved notifications, Twitter integration, wireless sync and PC-freeupdating.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The apps</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">There are some iPhone apps that won't workon the iPhone 3GS, such as games that require a gyroscope and photo or videoapps that use the iPhone 4's front-facing camera. But with a few rareexceptions, the iPhone 3GS provides full access to the iOS App Store, which isarguably the iPhone's greatest asset.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Of course, there are plenty of reasons whyyou wouldn't want an iPhone 3GS instead of the iPhone 4 or whatever comes next.Its paltry 8 GB of storage will preclude you from loading it with too muchmusic and video. Its lack of front-facing camera means you can't enjoy videochat (but ask yourself how often you use video chat services on a PC beforedeciding how necessary this is). Its lack of flash on the rear-facing camerameans your photos will stink in low-light (the biggest weakness, in myopinion).</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">If you're after the latest technology, theiPhone 3GS isn't worth buying—but earlier adopters know this already. Whencompared, however, to other phones in the sub-$50 price range, the iPhone 3GSstill holds its own.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif"><br /></font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">(字数</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif">272</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">)</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif"></font></font></span></strong></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体"><span style="background-color:aqua;">计时</span></font></font></span><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:aqua;">4</span></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><font size="6"><strong><span style="color:#505050;"><font size="4"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ChineseNBA star Yao Ming retires from basketball</font></font></span></strong></font><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">China'sbiggest sports star, basketball player Yao Ming, has announced his retirementafter weeks of rumours.</font></font></span></strong><br /><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><strong><br /></strong></font></font></span><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The 7ft 6in (2.3m) Houston Rockets playersaid he had been suffering ever since he broke his foot at the end of lastyear.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Yao said he wouldjoin up with Chinese team the Shanghai Sharks, possibly in the role of generalmanager.The 30-year old is the NBA's most famous Asian player. Injuries forcedhim to miss the 2009-2010 season.His retirement was expected, after widespreadmedia reports in the US last week.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">He told a news conference in Shanghai thatthe past six months had been "agonising" as he weighed up his futurein the game."I had been thinking over and over. Today I am announcing apersonal decision: ending my career as a basketball player. But one door isclosing and another one is opening," he said.Yao had missed an estimated250 regular-season games - roughly half of Houston's schedule - in the last sixseasons with a number of foot and ankle injuries.Analysts say Yao has had ahuge international impact on the game and was a driving force behind the NBAestablishing a China venture in 2007.NBA official David Stern <a href="http://www.nba.com/video/channels/nba_tv/2011/07/19/stern_yao.nba/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">said in astatement</span></a> that he looked forward to continuing to work with Yaoin some capacity in the future.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">"Yao Ming has been a transformationalplayer for our league and a source of enormous pride to the people of China andpeople of Chinese descent in the United States," he said.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体"></font></font></span>(字数</strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif">265</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">)</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif"></font></font></span></strong></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体"><span style="background-color:aqua;">计时</span></font></font></span><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:aqua;">5</span></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Georgia, serif">Canada to extradite Chinese fugitive</font></font></span><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif"></font></font></span></strong></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">China accuses Lai Changxing of runninghuge smuggling operation but rights activists say he will not receive fairtrial</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/china" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">China</span></a> has welcomed a Canadian court'sdecision to extradite Lai Changxing, its most-wanted fugitive, but lawyers andrights activists have expressed doubt that he would have access to a fair trialback home.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The federal court cleared the way onThursday for the extradition of Lai and he could be sent home as early asSaturday, dismissing concerns that he could be tortured or executed once hearrives back in China.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Beijing has sought the deportation of Lai,accusing him of running a multibillion-dollar smuggling operation in thesoutheastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Lai fled to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/canada" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">Canada</span></a> with his family in 1999 andclaimed refugee status, saying the allegations against him were politicallymotivated.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">"The Chinese government's stance onLai Changxing returning to China to stand trial is clear. We welcome theCanadian court's decision," the foreign ministry said in a statement.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The verdict was issued just after thevisit of Canada's foreign minister, John Baird, to China, where he said"both the Canadian people and the Chinese people don't have a lot of timefor white-collar fraudsters".</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">China promised Canada in a diplomatic notethat Lai would not be tortured or executed and that Canadian officials wouldhave access to him.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">"The fact that Canadian governmentofficials appear willing to accept on face value the Chinese government'sassurances that it will respect due legal process suggests a near-willfulignorance of the sharp deterioration in China's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/human-rights" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">human rights</span></a> environmentsince mid-February 2011," said Phelim Kine, a researcher for <a href="http://www.hrw.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;">Human Rights Watch</span></a>, in an email.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">(字数</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif">280</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">)</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif"></font></font></span></strong></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体"><span style="background-color:aqua;">自由阅读</span></font></font></span><span style="color:black;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:aqua;"></span></font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">"[The] Canadian government'sconfidence in the Chinese legal system is curious given that since mid-February2011, rule of law has been under intensified attack and the Chinese governmenthas been routinely deploying thuggish, unlawful tactics to harass, silence andintimidate lawyers, artists and civil society activists."</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The case exploded in the special economiczone of Xiamen in southeastern Fujian province in the mid-1990s when JiaQinglin, now China's fourth-ranked official, was head of the province.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Beijing has accused Lai's business empire,the Yuanhua Group, of bribing officials to allow a massive smuggling ring in ascandal that implicated more than 200 senior figures, including Jia's wife atthe time, Lin Youfang.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">China put more than 300 suspects on trialand sentenced 14 to death, including provincial officials and a formervice-minister of public security, in a case Beijing has used for a propagandacampaign against corruption.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Lai admitted in a 2009 interview withToronto's Globe and Mail newspaper that he had avoided taxes by exploitingloopholes in the law, but he denies bribery charges. He said that had he notbeen in Canada he would have been executed.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Canada has no death penalty and will notusually extradite anyone to a state where capital punishment is practisedwithout assurances the suspect will not be executed.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Many Chinese legal experts and humanrights activists said it was unlikely Lai could receive a fair trial in China.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">"Unless the investigators,prosecutors and judges he will confront dramatically alter their customarypractices, Lai will not receive a fair trial by international human rightsstandards or Canadian criminal justice standards," said Jerome Cohen, anexpert in Chinese law at New York University. Cohen was called by the Canadiangovernment as an expert witness at Lai's refugee hearing several years ago.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">(字数</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif">296</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">)</font></font></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;"><font size="2"><font face="Georgia, serif"></font></font></span></strong></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">"The real question is what detailedprovisions has the PRC promised to make to assure Canada that there will belittle risk of torture before Lai is convicted and during the undoubtedly longperiod of his prison sentence."</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Reflecting the intensity of China'sofficial position, state media in 2001 cited then-premier Zhu Rongji as sayingLai "should die three times, and even so that wouldn't be enough".</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">John Kamm, executive director of the DuiHua Foundation, a US-based group that promotes prisoners' rights in China,said: "Without a presumption of innocence – indeed with the presumption ofguilt – how does one get a 'fair trial?'"</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">But he said Chinese assurances and theoffer to allow Canadian diplomats access to Lai should offer some protection."If he were tortured or executed, the damage to Sino-Canadian relationswould be massive, and would no doubt deter other countries from extraditingsuspects who allegedly committed capital crimes back to China," he said.</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:black;"><font size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span></div><br /><br /></div> |
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