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She did commit a crime by travelling to Russia with an illegal substance, for which she got roughly the same sentence as a typical Russian would get if caught with a similar amount of drugs. This case doesn't seem to be out of the ordinary, except for the "criminal" being a famous foreigner.


Half of 20-year-olds in StP and Moscow would be in prison if that was true. Her arrest and imprisonment was entirely political.


They also don't cross borders with such things, as a foreigner, I'm not defending it but it was stupid to do.

Of course a foreigner is going to be possibly vetted more.


Using a VPN in China is also a crime.


That the party ignores to access Twitter for propaganda and privileged people ignore for entertainment.

The party isn't technically the government of China.




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