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sabrina 1

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14. Why do you doubt it? People doubted the letters coming out of the British
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 06:19 AM
Dec 2012

Prison, Long Kesh, in Northern Ireland, written in tiny print on toilet paper also asking for help as political prisoners were being tortured in that shameful place. But it turned out they were true.

People also doubted the early reports of letters coming from a woman in Abu Ghraib also begging for help, and still might, had one brave American soldier not released the videos proving that the woman did exist, that she was being tortured and raped and that she too probably risked her life when she sent that letter out through the prison walls.

This is not at all an unusual way for oppressed people to try to get help from the outside world. It's actually a very old way. Do you doubt the conditions he describes or that he put the letter in the package? What is it you doubt?

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