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Taiwan: Girl shaving hair for saving her father

Written byOiwan Lam
Posted 14 July 2006 2:44 GMT

A Taiwanese girl created a blog and annouced that her action in shaving her hair and silent protest on her blog in order to save her father from injustice trial regarding corruption in village level election(zh).

Another blog post in Chinatimes reports that her action has got the attention of the public quickly and the Taiwan human rights association stepped in.

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