Tennessee Native Returns After Being Deported from Beijing
Submitted by WDEF News 12 on August 26, 2008 - 9:17am.
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James Powderly, a native of Chattanooga, Tennesse, an artist and activist, was detained in Beijing while preparing to debut a new artistic form of protest, the L.A.S.E.R. Stencil. He currently lives in New York City and is one of eight Americans that were detained in China after being sentenced to extrajudicial detention. All eight and are now home.
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