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UPDATE 1-China "bars" blind dissident's family choice of lawyers
Reuters(Adds details, official comment) By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING, May 18 (Reuters) - The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to...Tags: Hong Kong, Murder, China, Civil Rights, Beijing (China)
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Open petition calls for Chinese leader's resignation
World NowIn the latest challenge to China’s embattled national security czar, a group of retired Communist Party officials in western China has released an open petition calling for his resignation.... -
Blind dissident's plight revives China rights movement
ReutersBy Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING, May 16 (Reuters) - China may have sown the seeds of its next human rights row with the United States even as it looks to end the current one over blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, with its treatment of him inspiring a band of...Tags: Slavery, Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Rights Watch, China
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Marine Harvest ve fuerte alza de suministro global de salmón
ReutersOSLO, 9 mayo (Reuters) - Marine Harvest, la principal firma productora de salmones del Atlántico, estima que el suministro global subirá fuertemente este año al tiempo que los principales criaderos mundiales se benefician de estÃmulos a la producció...Tags: John Fredriksen, China, Chile
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Rule of law? Not in China
The "deal" for Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to leave China for legal study in the United States is not without pitfalls, but other outcomes could be worse. Even if Chinese authorities honor the promises apparently made to U.S. officials to let him...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Lawyers, Hospitals and Clinics, Arab Spring, China
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Trying to Interview Reykjavik's Mayor
As an avid “Off the Markley” reader, you should prepare to learn an awful lot about the country of Iceland. Why Iceland? Well, a couple months ago a few friends and I got it in our head to go spend two-and-a-half weeks traveling around that...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, HBO (tv network), Google Inc., Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Illinois Governor
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China poised to limit use of mental hospitals to curb dissent
The hardest thing about being imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital is keeping your sanity.
Li Jinping knows. The 47-year-old political activist spent seven months in Beijing'sChaoyang District Mental Health Center, heavily sedated. If he refused his...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, China, Civil Rights
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Scandals in China intensify possible Communist Party crisis
William PfaffPARIS -- Events suggest that the long-overdue crisis of China's Communist Party has arrived. Evidence is provided by the affair of the Chinese police chief who tried to defect to the United States and was turned away, the sensational murder of the...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Murder, China, Bill Clinton, Entertainment Events
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Chinese dissident in U.S. tells of harassment, torture
World NowDissident Chinese writer Yu Jie, who fled to the United States earlier this month, says he was tortured and harassed in 2010 even as the Nobel Peace prize was being awarded to his best friend, Liu Xiaobo.... -
Tibetan shooting comes on heels of human rights criticism
World NowChinese security forces opened fire on Tibetan protesters Monday, killing at least one person, Tibetan activists reported. The news comes on the heels of the annual Human Rights Watch report, which criticized China for repression in ethnic minority... -
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AP interview: Cagey Norwegian Nobel chair says peace prize winner 'obvious' this year
Associated PressSTRASBOURG, France (AP) — This year's Nobel Peace prize winner is "obvious," the chairman of the prize committee says, and he's surprised that "commentators and experts" haven't picked up on it. With upheaval in the Arab world and Europe's...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Norway, Tunisia, Human Rights, Oslo (Norway)
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Feb 4, 2012
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