Rights row erupts as China retracts visas of Canadian journalists
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin demanded answers from China, after Beijing sparked a human rights row by revoking the visas of two Toronto-based Chinese reporters due to cover his visit to Asia.
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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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In a blast of harsh rhetoric, China lashed out Thursday at the Dalai Lama and critics of Beijing's support for Sudan, saying attempts to link political issues to the Beijing Summer Olympics betrayed the spirit of the games.
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China's progress on protection of human rights was on display at a symposium on Thursday, but dozens of residents and petitioners were left outside, saying they were barred from entering.
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Chinese officials are flouting a pledge made to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which helped to secure the 2008 games for Beijing, by harassing and abusing journalists, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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China has been accused of blocking access to Google News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders. The Paris-based pressure group said the English-language news site had been unavailable for the past 10 days.
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By ALEXA OLESEN  BEIJING - China, which jails more journalists than any other nation, is challenging the view that information on the Internet is impossible to control, and the implications for press freedom could be far-reaching, a New York-based rights group said.
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The wife of a jailed Chinese activist was prevented from leaving the country today as she attempted to travel overseas to collect a human rights award on behalf of her husband. Yuan Weijing was detained at Beijing airport, her passport revoked and her mobile phone confiscated, according to friends.
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by ming Thursday, Dec 23 2004, 7:10am. 44 North Koreans who scaled the walls of the Canadian Embassy compound in China last September have been allowed to leave for an undisclosed third country.
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Canada says 44 North Koreans who sought asylum at the Canadian embassy in Beijing in September have now left China for a third country.
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Pro-Beijing media launched a scathing attack Friday on a report alleging human rights violations ahead of Hong Kong's weekend election, and a Chinese official lashed out at the "wicked" watchdog group that prepared it.
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China, which jails more journalists than any other nation, is challenging the view that information on the Internet is impossible to control, and the implications for press freedom could be far-reaching, a New York-based rights group said.
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China has shut down more than 100 websites for copyright violations since a new regulation came into effect in July, state media have said.
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China is blocking access to the Web site Google News, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, and accused the US-based company of being complicit by filtering its Chinese-language site.
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NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (OneWorld) - International press freedom organization Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF) has urged the European Union (EU) to condemn China's latest crackdown on independent websites and publications while holding a dialogue on human rights with the EU, even as a report by media freedom group, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says 42  journalists are currently imprisoned in China, with insurance companies in the country listing journalism as the third most dangerous profession in the country.
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China on Thursday urged Canada to hand over 44 North Korean men, women and children, who stormed into the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday to seek political asylum.
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Press freedom groups voice dismay at moves by China to increase restrictions on foreign news agencies.