Report: China to Release Jailed Dissident
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China plans to release a prominent imprisoned dissident this week, cutting short his sentence in an apparent "conciliatory gesture" by the government of President Hu Jintao, a human rights group said Tuesday.
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By BEN STOCKING  HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has released one of its best-known dissidents from prison, two weeks before its president is to make a historic visit to the United States, an official said Sunday.
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Hong Kong media reported Tuesday that journalist Ching Cheong, who was jailed in mainland China on spying charges, has been released and will return to Hong Kong.
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Cuba releases a journalist jailed in last year's dissident crackdown, the sixth prisoner to be freed this week.
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US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was set to hold high-level talks in Beijing Wednesday with rights crawling up the agenda over the arrest of a high-profile Chinese dissident, officials said.
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BEIJING, Sept. 15 -- A jailed researcher for the New York Times was released in Beijing at about 8:15 a.m. Saturday after serving a three-year sentence for accepting money from a source, a charge he denies.
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RANGOON - At least two dissidents are among thousands of prisoners being freed by the Myanmar military government in a third mass release in less than a month.
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'Computer says 10 years, comrade' China has tested a software programme designed to "help decide prison sentences", Reuters reports.â¦
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A Chinese hacker arrested just days ago will be allowed to release a fix for the worm that he helped write. But a security researcher questioned the wisdom of the move.
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A Communist Party whistle-blower who rose to brief fame in China by denouncing official corruption has been relieved of his duties and placed under a form of house arrest while authorities investigate his conduct, friends and neighbors said Thursday.
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A U.S.-based press freedom watchdog is to honor a Chinese reporter who spent years behind bars after exposing a fraudulent irrigation project, the group said in a statement on Tuesday.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while  working for the New York Times was released on Saturday, ending  a controversial prison term that highlighted the country&#39;s  tough media controls.
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China, a frequent target of overseas human rights organisations, has promised to improve the treatment of its prisoners, especially those on death row, state press reported Monday.
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China is relaxing decades-old restrictions on foreign reporters, announcing new regulations Friday that will give foreign media greater freedom to travel and report in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Even as the rules were made public, however, a Chinese court affirmed a prison sentence for a Chinese reporter.
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China will bar dissidents from a weekend memorial for Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, but will allow some 2,000 other mourners to take part, an activist close to Zhao's family said Friday.
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A protester jailed after the 1989 Tiananmen protests has been released while another activist who was jailed and freed years ago for his role in the pro-democracy uprising has been detained again, a human rights watchdog said Sunday.
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Myanmar announced it would release another 5,000 prisoners and a senior official said on Thursday a top dissident who was democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will also be free before long.