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2: Order a crackdown

How to become a dictator

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The Secret Detention Centers in China

In 2015, Wang Trenjiang is rounded up in dawn rates along with more than 300 other lawyers and human rights defenders. He ends up alone in a small, suicide-proof, padded cell. Then out of nowhere, he pops up again on state TV saying his treatment has been fair.

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