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China Tries To Block NGO Tribute To Dead Dissident At UN
China tried Friday to block a statement before the UN Human Rights Council about a dissident who was detained and died after trying to travel to the council a decade ago.
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Zoom Asked by US Lawmakers to Clarify China Ties After It Suspends Accounts
Three US lawmakers asked Zoom Video Communications to clarify its data-collection practices and relationship with the Chinese government after the firm said it had suspended user accounts to meet demands from Beijing.
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Activist Probing Ivanka Trump's Brands In China Arrested: Rights Group
A man has been arrested and two are missing in China after conducting an investigation into a Chinese company making Ivanka Trump-branded shoes, China Labor Watch, a New York-based advocacy group, said on Wednesday.
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China Activists Fear Increased Surveillance With New Security Law
Chinese activists say they fear intensified state surveillance after a draft law seeking to legitimise monitoring of suspects and raid premises was announced last week, the latest step to strengthen Beijing's security apparatus.
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China Sentences Activists For 'Disturbing Social Order': Xinhua
Three labour activists were given suspended sentences of two to four years, Chinese state media said Tuesday, citing their involvement with "overseas organisations hostile to China".
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India Visa For This Man Seen As Payback For China Protecting Masood Azhar
As China repeatedly justifies blocking New Delhi's proposal at the UN to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad Chief Masood Azhar a terrorist, India has angered Beijing by granting visa to a prominent Chinese dissident leader it accuses of being a terrorist.
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China Jails 3 'Civil Disobedience' Activists
A Chinese court sentenced three activists to prison today for allegedly attempting to start a non-violent civil rights movement, campaign groups said, the latest example of the Communist Party's intensifying crackdown on dissent.
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China detains activist for subversion after pressuring leaders on wealth
Chinese police have detained an activist agitating for officials to disclose their assets on subversion charges, her lawyer said on Wednesday, underscoring the limits of an anti-corruption push by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Beijing says dissident can apply to study outside China
The announcement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry follows a dramatic and very public appeal by Chen, who spoke by phone to a US congressional hearing on his case, asking to be allowed to spend some time in the United States.
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US ready to help Chinese activist: official
The United States is ready to help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng if he has changed his decision to leave US protection and wants to leave into exile, a senior US official said on Thursday.
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Blind Chinese activist flees house arrest
A blind legal activist fled house arrest in his rural China village and made it to a secret location in Beijing on Friday, setting off a frantic police search for him and those who helped him, activists said.
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Home surrounded after blind China activist's mystery "escape"
Chen Guangcheng, a self-schooled legal advocate in ailing health who campaigned against forced abortions, had been restricted to his village home in Linyi in Shandong province since September 2010 when he was released from jail.
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4,000 a year executed by China: Activists
China executes around 4,000 people a year, the most in the world but half the number it did before ordering Supreme Court reviews of all death penalty cases in 2007, a US human rights group said on Tuesday.
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China Tries To Block NGO Tribute To Dead Dissident At UN
China tried Friday to block a statement before the UN Human Rights Council about a dissident who was detained and died after trying to travel to the council a decade ago.
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Zoom Asked by US Lawmakers to Clarify China Ties After It Suspends Accounts
Three US lawmakers asked Zoom Video Communications to clarify its data-collection practices and relationship with the Chinese government after the firm said it had suspended user accounts to meet demands from Beijing.
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Activist Probing Ivanka Trump's Brands In China Arrested: Rights Group
A man has been arrested and two are missing in China after conducting an investigation into a Chinese company making Ivanka Trump-branded shoes, China Labor Watch, a New York-based advocacy group, said on Wednesday.
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China Activists Fear Increased Surveillance With New Security Law
Chinese activists say they fear intensified state surveillance after a draft law seeking to legitimise monitoring of suspects and raid premises was announced last week, the latest step to strengthen Beijing's security apparatus.
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China Sentences Activists For 'Disturbing Social Order': Xinhua
Three labour activists were given suspended sentences of two to four years, Chinese state media said Tuesday, citing their involvement with "overseas organisations hostile to China".
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India Visa For This Man Seen As Payback For China Protecting Masood Azhar
As China repeatedly justifies blocking New Delhi's proposal at the UN to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad Chief Masood Azhar a terrorist, India has angered Beijing by granting visa to a prominent Chinese dissident leader it accuses of being a terrorist.
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China Jails 3 'Civil Disobedience' Activists
A Chinese court sentenced three activists to prison today for allegedly attempting to start a non-violent civil rights movement, campaign groups said, the latest example of the Communist Party's intensifying crackdown on dissent.
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China detains activist for subversion after pressuring leaders on wealth
Chinese police have detained an activist agitating for officials to disclose their assets on subversion charges, her lawyer said on Wednesday, underscoring the limits of an anti-corruption push by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Beijing says dissident can apply to study outside China
The announcement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry follows a dramatic and very public appeal by Chen, who spoke by phone to a US congressional hearing on his case, asking to be allowed to spend some time in the United States.
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US ready to help Chinese activist: official
The United States is ready to help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng if he has changed his decision to leave US protection and wants to leave into exile, a senior US official said on Thursday.
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Blind Chinese activist flees house arrest
A blind legal activist fled house arrest in his rural China village and made it to a secret location in Beijing on Friday, setting off a frantic police search for him and those who helped him, activists said.
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Home surrounded after blind China activist's mystery "escape"
Chen Guangcheng, a self-schooled legal advocate in ailing health who campaigned against forced abortions, had been restricted to his village home in Linyi in Shandong province since September 2010 when he was released from jail.
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4,000 a year executed by China: Activists
China executes around 4,000 people a year, the most in the world but half the number it did before ordering Supreme Court reviews of all death penalty cases in 2007, a US human rights group said on Tuesday.
