Chinese student given 9-month prison sentence for harassing person posting democracy leaflets
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The U.S. Attorney's office says a Chinese former student at Boston's Berklee College of Music has been sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in the Asian country

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