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Wife of Detained Chinese Lawyer Appeal to UN on Torture
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:23:53 +0000 | China View
Press release, Human Rights in China (HRIC), June 05, 2007- Human Rights in China (HRIC) has received a letter from Zhang Qing, the wife of Guo Feixiong (also known as Yang Maodong) detailing Guo’s torture in detention and asking HRIC to forward the letter to Manfred Nowak, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. In her letter, [...]
Sri Lanka Human Rights Panel Is Criticized
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:17:25 EDT | New York Times
An international panel appointed by the government of Sri Lanka has issued a stark indictment of a presidential commission impaneled to investigate human rights violations.
Yahoo! defends its record on human rights in China
| Findory News China
The Independent: The American internet company Yahoo! has defended its record on human rights in China, and said it was asking the US government to challenge censorship in the communist country.
China deals setback to UN human rights watchdog
| Findory News China
International Herald Tribune: Beijing's last-minute demand would make it more difficult for the Human Rights Council to investigate governments for wrongdoing.
China Blocks Plan to Get U.N. Human Rights Body Working
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:58:03 +0000 | China View
By Richard Waddington, Reuters, 18 Jun 2007- GENEVA, June 18 (Reuters) - China was blocking on Monday a “take-it-or-leave” plan for the United Nations’ new human rights watchdog with Beijing seeking to make it tougher to single out individual states for censure, diplomats said. The chairman of the Human Rights Council, Mexican ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, [...]
Taiwan Slams Hong Kong Human Rights Backward on Falun Gong Travel Ban
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:09:00 +0000 | China View
Radio Taiwan International, Taiwan, 06/27/2007- The government says the state of human rights and democracy in Hong Kong has declined since its return to China in 1997. The statement comes after more than forty Falun Gong practitioners from Taiwan have been barred from entering Hong Kong in recent days. Twelve travelers from Taiwan were turned back from [...]
China Hero Doctor Who Exposed SARS Cover-Up Barred U.S. Trip For Rights Award
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:43:39 +0000 | China View
By JOSEPH KAHN, New York Times, July 13, 2007- BEIJING, July 12 ? A Chinese doctor who exposed the cover-up of China?s SARS outbreak in 2003 has been barred from traveling to the United States to collect a human rights award, a friend of the doctor and a human rights group said this week. The doctor, Jiang [...]
