Chinese activist's wife detained
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The wife of a Chinese activist retried over public order offences is detained by police, lawyers say.
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Prominent Chinese activist Hu Jia is formally arrested more than a month after being taken into custody.
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was   detained in mid-August, a government spokesman said on Thursday   as rights groups complained he was arrested after using the   Internet to call for alternatives to one-party communist rule.
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The husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was put under house arrest today after a court ordered his detention in a murder case.
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Human rights advocates and Chinese dissidents say the arrest of an activist named Hu Jia is the most telling example of what they describe as a broadening crackdown on dissent.
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The wife of an imprisoned blind Chinese activist denounced China for its human rights record and for preventing her from receiving a Philippine humanitarian award for her husband in Manila on Friday.
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A blind Chinese activist jailed after he documented cases of forced abortions was beaten by other prisoners, who also held him down and shaved his head, his wife said Friday.
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China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing.
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Wife of Thailand's ousted prime minister arrested as she returns to the country to face corruption charges
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BEIJING, Nov. 25 -- The chief organizer of a six-day AIDS conference scheduled to begin Sunday has been detained by men who identified themselves as Beijing security forces, according to a colleague at his organization.
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Dr. Gao Yaojieâs house arrest sheds light on Chinaâs intolerance for grass-roots AIDS activists.
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HONG KONG - The relatives and political colleagues of a Hong Kong democracy activist jailed in China for soliciting a prostitute yesterday called on the Chinese authorities to release him on medical grounds, a colleague said.
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The factional leader in a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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The wife of a detained green activist, once hailed a hero for saving a huge lake now covered in thick algae, is trying to sue the state environment watchdog for naming a polluted city a model of environmental virtue.
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Dozens of people have been detained or placed under house arrest, as the trial of a high-profile Beijing activist opens in a local court, said some of the detainees.
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A jailed Chinese human rights activist has been beaten by other prisoners, Amnesty International says.
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The wife of a jailed Chinese rights activist is stopped from leaving the country to collect an award, friends say.