Chinese Activists

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  China "Routinely" Uses Psychiatric Hospitals To Punish Activists: Report

  China's use of psychiatric hospitals to imprison activists without due process remains routine, a rights group has said, accusing doctors and the healthcare system of colluding with authorities in punishing dissidents.

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  Chinese Rights Lawyer Jailed For 12 Years

  A Chinese court has sentenced defence lawyer Xia Lin to 12 years in prison, his attorney said Thursday, the latest blow in a broad crackdown on human rights defenders and activists.

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  '100 Per Cent Sure It's China's Pressure,' Says Activist Denied Visa By India

  Chinese activist Lu Jinghua, who alleges that she was about to board a flight to New Delhi at New York's JFK airport on Monday when she was told that her visa had been cancelled, says India is the first country to deny her entry after China.

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  Tiananmen Activist Visa Flatly Refused, Not Withdrawn: Government Sources

  After cancelling a visa issued to an exiled leader branded by China as a terrorist, India has reportedly withdrawn visas issued to two other activists who were to attend an inter-faith conference this month in the hill town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

• Brother of blind Chinese dissident escapes village

  The older brother of the blind Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, who triggered a diplomatic row between Beijing and Washington has escaped his heavily guarded home and arrived in the capital Thursday, a rights lawyer said.

• Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng rests in New York City

  Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng soaked up the sun in New York City on Sunday as his children played in a garden, a break in a day of meetings to arrange his studies at New York University.

• Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to get passport 'within 15 days'

  Blind activist Chen Guangcheng said on Thursday that China had agreed to issue him a passport within 15 days, allowing him to go to the United States, after a bitter row between Beijing and Washington.

• Activist pleads for US help to leave China

  Activist Chen Guangcheng told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Thursday that he did not feel safe in China despite assurances made under a deal to remove him from the US embassy, pleading for American help to take him abroad.

• Blind Chinese activist wants to leave China, fears for family's safety

  Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says he now fears for his family's safety, and wants to leave the country. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on today, he told The Associated Press that US officials informed him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had he not left the American Embassy.

• China rushes to erase activist from social media

  A well-known blind activist's escape from house arrest in China has set off a cat-and-mouse conflict on the Internet between censors and netizens. As word of Cheng Guangcheng's flight surfaced and spread last Friday, admirers rushed to popular Chinese social media to cheer him on - and the censors swung into action to block key phrases.

• Romney urges US to protect China activist

  White House hopeful Mitt Romney on Sunday urged the US officials to do all they can to protect a Chinese activist who is said to have fled to the US embassy and has vowed to confront Beijing over human rights.

• China police detain friend of activist Chen Guangcheng

  Police in Beijing have detained Hu Jia, an outspoken government critic and friend of the Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng who escaped house arrest last weekend, Mr Hu's wife said on Sunday on Twitter.

• Fugitive Chinese activist 'under US protection'

  A leading Chinese activist who escaped from house arrest last weekend is now under US "protection" and Washington and Beijing are in talks over his status, an overseas rights group said on Saturday.

• China releases human rights activist Hu Jia

  One of China's most prominent prisoners of conscience, Hu Jia, returned home today after completing a jail term for subversion but looked likely to be muzzled along with other top dissidents.The human rights activist's release after more than three years in prison comes after outspoken artist Ai Weiwei emerged in Beijing last week from nearly three...

• Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize

  Liu Xiaobo, an impassioned literary critic, political essayist and democracy advocate repeatedly jailed by the Chinese government for his writings, won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of "his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." Mr. Liu, 54, perhaps China's best known dissident, is currently servi...