Watchdog: Beijing threatens free speech
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A Beijing city regulation clamping down on people who send text messages that "spread rumors" or "endanger public security" is a threat to freedom of expression, a watchdog group said Monday.
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Human rights defenders face arrest and  torture in China, and the European Union should raise the issue  at a summit with Beijing's leaders this week, Amnesty  International said in a new report Monday.
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China remains "highly repressive," with routine violations of basic rights and widespread corruption despite promises of legal and political reform, the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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China's Communist Party tells its members that  corruption could threaten its hold on power.
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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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An India-based human rights watchdog has denounced China for human rights abuses in Tibet last year and predicted that religious repression would get worse in 2007.
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Human Rights Watch accuses China of intimidation ahead of Sunday's election in Hong Kong.
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BEIJING, Dec. 25 -- Outraged that his Internet posting about dogs had been banned, Chen Yuhua wrote to the mayor of Beijing. No answer. He wrote to the city council. Still no answer. When all else failed, he consulted a lawyer, studied China's civil code and marched into court with a lawsuit.
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At a time when China's government has granted the foreign media greater freedom, it is tightening controls on Chinese who write about politically sensitive or embarrassing topics, human rights activists and journalists say.
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China has condemned as war provoking Taiwan&#39;s prime minister&#39;s threat to retaliate if Beijing launched missile attacks against the island.
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Yahoo criticized the Chinese government on Monday, saying it shouldn't curtail its citizens' rights to free speech, just one day after it was sued by the mother of a jailed journalist.
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A Chinese author who was briefly  detained by police overnight along with two other intellectuals  said Tuesday the authorities appeared to be trying to build a  case against him as part of a crackdown on government critics.
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An official Chinese newspaper warned on   Wednesday that new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's   ambiguous stance regarding official visits to a controversial   war shrine could block improved ties with Beijing.
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BEIJING, Sept. 13 -- A new effort to punish anyone who leaks information from China's courts is part of a clampdown on the news media ahead of a leadership conference next year, experts said Wednesday.
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China has warned that continuing the European Union (EU) arms embargo on Beijing will negatively affect the relationship between them.
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By Bruce Einhorn and Ben Elgin  Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft endured a wave of public disapproval earlier this year over their compliance with Chinese censorship of their websites.
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MONTEVIDEO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Freedom of expression worldwide has been under   threat since agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation  (FBI) last  week seized two Internet servers hosting websites of  the Independent Media  Centres. In Latin America, Indymedia  Brazil and Uruguay are directly affected.