Chinese dissidents held
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Chinese police arrested four more dissidents, including Zhai Weimin, a student leader in the 1989 pro-democracy movement, AFP reports from Peking. The arrests brought to five the number of activists who have now been detained in less than a month, as the fifth anniversary of the crushing of the pro-democracy campaign in Tiananmen Square approaches.
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