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Wei Shanshan, of Hamburg, Germany, talks about the imprisonment by China of her brother, Wei Jingsheng, during an interview at the Human Rights Watch-Asia offices in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 23, 1997 in Washington. Wei Jingsheng is considered China's most prominent dissident. The organization reports his jailers have errected a glass wall on one side of his cell to keep him under surveillance and that his health is deteroriating. (AP Photo/Ken Cedino)