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China: Rights Defender Guo Feixiong Sentenced to 5 years in Prison
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:19:01 +0000 | China View
Human Rights in China, November 14, 2007- November 14, 2007 (Hong Kong): Human Rights in China has learned that human rights defender and legal advisor Guo Feixiong (also known as Yang Maodong) was convicted in Guangzhou at 8:30 am today of “illegal business activity” and sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment and fined 40,000 yuan. Human Rights [...]
EU: Keep up human rights pressure on China in the run-up to 2008 Olympics
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:09:01 +0000 | China View
press release, European Parliament, 27-11-2007 - With next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing just around the corner, the world must keep up the pressure on China over its human rights record, a hearing of the European Parliament’s Human Rights Subcommittee attended by over 200 people was told on Monday. Several NGOs, including a Chinese dissident speaking [...]
Karen Tse's human rights ministry is helping to eradicate torture
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:48:55 +0000 | Newsvina Asia
Tse took a break from her international human rights legal work to attend Harvard Divinity School. She had been deferring admission to HDS for a decade, choosing to attend law school first and work in the trenches as a public defender.
In Pasadena China Wins, Human Rights Loses
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:48:36 +0000 | China View
Newswire Services, via California Chronicle, December 29, 2007- When, those who understand the deplorable state of human rights in China heard that Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard had invited Beijing to submit a float in the internationally famed Rose Parade on New Year?s Day, they immediately formed a coalition to oppose the float or at least to [...]
US Follows Closely ?disturbing? Case of Detained Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:05:40 +0000 | China View
AFP, Jan. 14, 2008- WASHINGTON (AFP) ? The US State Department said Monday it is following closely the “disturbing” case of one of China’s most prominent human rights activists who was detained last month. Hu Jia, 34, was taken by police on December 27 on charges of “incitement to subvert state power.” “This is a case that we’ve [...]
U.K.'s Brown urged to press China on human rights
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:45:18 +0000 | Newsvine China
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown should use his visit to China starting on Friday to press Beijing on a range of human rights issues ahead of this year's Olympics, according to rights groups.
Year 2007 sees repression worsening in Tibet: Report
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:53:17 +0000 | Newsvine China
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy's 2007 annual report finds cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions inside Tibet increased almost threefold compared to 2006 indicating a worsening of human rights situation in Tibet ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
