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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9720

8 August 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/china
Green group calls on China to surprise world by releasing all political prisoners

Brussels, 07/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a press release issued on Thursday 7 August, the Green/EFA group at the European Parliament announced that it would be awarding symbolic 'medals for freedom' to political prisoners in China on every day of the Olympics. German co-president of the group Daniel Cohn-Bendit said it was said that the Chinese were not surprising us and the Communist Party was behaving as expected. He said he would like to believe the fairy tale that China is opening up,...