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China bars AIDS doctor from U.S. for award: activist (Reuters)

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:14:00 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese AIDS campaigner Dr. Gao Yaojie shows an AIDS awareness sign in Shanghai in 2006. Chinese officials have placed Gao under house arrest to stop her from attending a gathering of a non-governmental organizations in the United States, a friend said.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)Reuters - China has blocked an octogenarian doctor instrumental in exposing China's HIV/AIDS crisis from collecting an award from a U.S.-based advocacy group, a fellow AIDS activist said on Monday.



Alleged Travel Ban Against China Activist

Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:14:00 +0000 | Newsvine China

A U.S. women's advocacy group said Tuesday it hopes that an apparent travel ban against a prominent Chinese AIDS activist can be lifted so she can be honored at a ceremony in Washington next month.


China: 80 years old AIDS activist detained

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:14:29 +0000 | Global Voices Online - China

Gao Yaojie, a 80 years old AIDS activist was detained in Beijing after receiving an invitation to attend 2007 the Annual Leadership Awards and Benefit, at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts on March 14, 2007. Zheng Jinyan has written a brief biography of Gao(zh).



Group Hopes to Honor China AIDS Activist

Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:14:00 +0000 | Newsvine China

A U.S. women's advocacy group said Tuesday it hopes that an apparent travel ban against a prominent Chinese AIDS activist can be lifted so she can be honored at a ceremony in Washington next month.


Group hopes to honor China AIDS activist

| Findory News China

Yahoo News: AP - A U.S. women's advocacy group said Tuesday it hopes that an apparent travel ban against a prominent Chinese AIDS activist can be lifted so she can be honored at a ceremony in Washington next month.


Human Rights Activist?s Personal Account of China Gulja after Massacre

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:16:48 +0000 | China View

Amnesty International (AI), 1 February 2007- Rebiya Kadeer, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, is a Uighur human rights activist and former prisoner of conscience. In November 2006, she was also elected president of the World Uighur Congress (WUC) in Munich. She lives in exile in the US. Here is her personal account [...]


China executes Uighur Muslim activist

9 Feb 2007 04:16 GMT | einsnews.com

... WASHINGTON (AFP) - China has executed an ethnic Uighur Muslim activist ... alleged crimes, was executed in the far-west Chinese city of Urumqi at 9:00 am local ... (ETIM), a Muslim Uighur separatist movement which Beijing has outlawed as a terrorist group. The ...


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