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June 9, 2009

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Via Reuters (h/t James Downie of Foreign Policy‘s Passport blog):

A man who tore the wig off a telegenic Taiwan legislator last year was sentenced to five months in jail for depriving the MP of his freedom to look good, a court spokesman said Tuesday.

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.