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A petitioner sits in the road among police officers as she protests ...
May 25th, 2009
(AP) - A petitioner sits in the road among police officers as she protests near a petitioner office in Beijing Monday, May 25, 2009. Petitioners, mostly from China’s vast, impoverished countryside routinely flock to Beijing by the thousands to air complaints after their local governments ignore them. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) -
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