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False. Take the finite, hence countable, cyclic group C6​=⟨a∣a6=1⟩. Its elements a3 and a2 have orders two and three. A group embedding preserves the order of every element, whereas conjugate group elements have the same order: (s−1xs)r=s−1xrs. Therefore their images cannot be conjugate in any containing group. This gives the required obstruction. The torsion-free group hypothesis in Question 5 avoids this conflict of element orders.

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