Chinese dissident artists

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Anchor Marco Werman talks to Larry Siems, who directs the Freedom to Write program at the PEN American Center in New York. Siems says the number of authors whose human rights have been violated by the Chinese government has been on a steep incline since 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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