Freed China reporter to win press freedom award
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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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Freed BBC reporters Alan Johnston is honoured by Amnesty International for his reporting from Gaza.
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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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The Hamas-led government won the freedom of the two journalists, but the deal may make it harder to gain the release of a captured Israeli soldier
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HUANGHUACHENG, China  - Authors generally welcome  publicity, but the Chinese winner of a non-government PEN award  has never given an interview. That may be because her book  taking a hard look at a past purge of intellectuals is banned.
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Handing down a jail sentence for a libel case has serious implications for press freedom in Indonesia, said Natalie Hill, deputy Asia director at Amnesty International, commenting on the jail sentence imposed on the chief editor of leading news magazine
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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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Taiwan&#39;s level of press freedom ranked 60th among 167 countries and areas in the world, one notch higher than in 2003, in the latest report released by the Reporters without Borders organization on Tuesday.
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BEIJING, Feb. 9 -- A senior editor at a Chinese newspaper has been released from prison after serving four years on corruption charges that journalists said were trumped up by local officials to retaliate for aggressive reporting.
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An Australian journalist was seized by militants in Iraq for nearly 24 hours, but then released unharmed.
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French media watchdog Reporters Without Borders awarded its top prizes Tuesday to an Algerian journalist, a Mexican weekly and a Chinese press freedom activist &#151; all recognized for taking a stand in the face of danger to inform the public.
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China on Tuesday freed a Hong Kong-based reporter for a Singaporean newspaper jailed for five years for spying for Taiwan after intense lobbying from activists and politicians for clemency ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
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A high-profile AIDS campaigner being held under house arrest in China has said the disease remained &quot;a tragedy for the Chinese people&quot; after the authorities confirmed she would be freed to receive an award in the United States.
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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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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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A Chinese court jailed a reporter for   a Singapore newspaper for five years on Thursday on a charge of   spying, the latest in a series of high-profile cases   underscoring China's curbs on the media and dissent.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four journalists - from Belarus, Burma, Burundi, and the United States - with 2004 International Press Freedom Awards in November.