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LA Times: China battens down hatches as Tiananmen anniversary nears
Excerpted from LA Times : Ding Zilin , whose 17-year-old son was killed in the crackdown and who now heads the group Tiananmen Mothers , was told to leave Beijing until the anniversary passed, said the New York-based group Human Rights in China. Access to the full text of this article may require a...
June 3, 2009
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Tibetan Review: Former dissident held for protest letter
Excerpted from Tibetan Review : Wu Gaoxing , a former educator in his late 60s, was detained by police on May 30 at his home in the eastern Chinese city of Taizhou, shortly after the publication of a letter he had co-signed complaining about economic discrimination against dissidents, reported AP...
June 3, 2009
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur: The bloody end of China's 1989 democracy protests
Excerpted from Deutsche Presse-Agentur via Monsters and Critics : The ruling Communist Party still claims that many innocent civilians and soldiers died in the crackdown, but it appeared that some civilians who were not protestors died at the hands of the army, and not all by accident. Most deaths...
June 2, 2009
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Guardian: China court closes human rights law firm for six months
Excerpted from Guardian : "The six-month shutdown sends a chilling warning to all lawyers that the authorities will not tolerate any perceived challenges to their power. This is not the path to a rule of law," said Sharon Hom, executive director of New York-based Human Rights In China. The group...
March 19, 2009
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AFP: Beijing human rights law firm shut down
Excerpted from AFP : New York-based Human Rights in China said the firm may have been punished because some of its lawyers had signed an appeal in August 2008 calling for direct elections in the Beijing Lawyers Association, a government administered body. "The six-month shutdown sends a chilling...
March 19, 2009
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Reuters: China closes rights law firm for six months
Excerpted from Reuters (via AsiaOne) : Some lawyers at the firm, Yitong, had also been involved in calling for direct elections to the state-controlled Beijing Lawyer's Association, which had angered the government, the New York-based group Human Rights in China said in a statement. "The six-month...
March 19, 2009
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Telegraph: China shuts down activist law firm
Excerpted from Telegraph : Human Rights in China, a New York-based organisation, said the firm may have been punished because some of its lawyers had signed an appeal in August 2008 calling for direct elections in the Beijing Lawyers Association, a government-administered body. "The six-month...
March 19, 2009
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International Trade Union Confederation: China - Yao Fuxin Released
Excerpted from International Trade Union Confederation : According to Human Rights in China (HRIC), Mr. Yao was initially charged with "gathering a crowd to disrupt social order" and then sentenced in May 2003 to seven years in prison for "subversion of State power" for alleged involvement in the...
March 18, 2009
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AFP: China labour leader freed after 7 years in jail
Excerpted from AFP : [ Yao Fuxin ] was detained in 2002 after speaking at a peaceful demonstration involving at least 5,000 workers from six factories in Liaoyang city, where he lived and worked, the New York-based Human Rights in China said. HRIC said he had been demanding back wages and pension...
March 17, 2009
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Actualidad: Sale de prisión activista chino que encabezó protestas obreras en el 2002
Excerpted from Actualidad : Yao Fuxin , conocido activista por los derechos de los trabajadores chinos, salió de prisión tras cumplir los siete años de cárcel a los que fue condenado en el 2002 por encabezar unas protestas obreras en el noreste de China, informó la organización Human Rights in...
March 17, 2009
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