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The wife of a jailed Chinese rights activist is stopped from leaving the country to collect an award, friends say.
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: Chinese engineers have stopped work on a dam project in a Pakistani tribal region over fears for their safety following the kidnapping of two colleagues by al-Qaida-linked abductors, an official said today.
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China will allow an aged AIDS activist to travel to the United States to collect a human rights prize, relenting after her detention at home for two weeks raised an international outcry.
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The arrest in south China of a Hong Kong pro-democracy politician for hiring a prostitute has eroded support for his party and hurt its chance of victory in the city&#39;s legislative elections next month.
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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.
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The husbands of women forced to abort a pregnancy, undergo involuntary sterilization or face persecution under China's coercive population control program do not automatically qualify for asylum, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
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Chinese leaders imposed a ban on reports about the death of Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on protesters.
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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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SHANGHAI -- While he lived, China's Communist Party considered ousted leader Zhao Ziyang such a potent threat that it kept him under house arrest for 15 years.
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A Chinese human rights activist who worked as a researcher for the New York Times has been detained on charges of leaking state secrets, said his lawyer on Friday.
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BEIJING -- The wife of a Boston-area democracy activist jailed in China said yesterday she plans to seek medical parole for her husband after seeing him for the first time since he was detained in 2002.
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The wife of a Hong Kong journalist jailed in China for espionage has met with her husband for the first time in almost two years, according to his employer.
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The case, along with the detention of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, has prompted international concern about ChinaÂs crackdown on press freedom.
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BEIJING, Aug. 24 -- The wife of a blind, imprisoned legal activist was detained at the Beijing airport Friday by authorities, apparently on orders to prevent her from flying to the Philippines to receive an award on behalf of her husband, whose case has sparked international outrage and...
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China on Friday defended a decision last week to stop the wife of a blind, jailed activist going to the Philippines to pick up an award on his behalf, saying she was suspected of "criminal activities".
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have arrested a prominent human rights advocate, a fellow activist said Wednesday, amid an ongoing crackdown on dissidents and government critics in the tightly controlled former Soviet state.
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BEIJING, Feb. 14 -- An activist who helped organize a petition complaining that Chinese want "human rights, not the Olympics" will be tried for inciting subversion against the state, his lawyer said Thursday.