China releases New York Times researcher
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A Chinese researcher for The New York Times who was detained on charges of violating state secrets laws and later convicted of fraud was released Saturday after serving a 3-year prison sentence.
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JAKARTA , Indonesia -- It wasn't so long ago that Chinese writing was banned from public places here and Chinese schools and newspapers were prohibited. But walk into the former office of Suharto, the retired Indonesian strongman who maintained these laws in an effort to integrate the ethnic Chinese community, and a large decorative poster of Chinese characters greets visitors.
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A factory worker who helped to organize a strike during China's 1989 pro-democracy protests has been released after nearly 15 years in prison, a U.S.-based prison rights group said Saturday.
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China has detained three prominent intellectuals who criticized the government, sources said yesterday, in what some believe reflects a new crackdown on freedom of expression.
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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 has formally arrested a New York  Times researcher detained last month for passing state secrets  to foreigners, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of  death, his lawyer said on Thursday.
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A Chinese activist whose writings frequently criticized the ruling Communist Party was released Tuesday after being detained by police, in what appears to be the latest in the government's ongoing efforts to tighten control over public dissent.
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The authors of a banned book that accuses Chinese communist officials of mistreating peasants have been awarded a 50,000 euro (US$61,500) journalism prize by a Germany-based group.
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A Chinese farmer who forged a career in   publishing by claiming he held a Ph.D. from Yale University was   given a 13-year jail term for defrauding a publisher of 590,000   yuan ($74,300), a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Chicago Tribune - Chinese authorities have arrested a New York Times news assistant on charges of leaking state secrets, and the newspaper has appealed to the "highest levels" of the U.S. government to help secure his release, a senior editor at the paper said Thursday.
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A former editor-in-chief of China's  best-selling newspaper has been sentenced to 12 years in jail  on corruption charges, state media said on Saturday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Yichang, Feb.
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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 allowed a high-profile AIDS campaigner under house arrest to travel to the United States to receive an award following Chinese President Hu Jintao's intervention, US Senator Hillary Clinton said.
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Iran has released Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American academic held in prison since May on charges of endangering Iran's security, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.
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A Chinese civil rights activist who chronicled the plight of other dissidents before being taken from his home in December has been officially arrested and charged with subversion
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One of the Chinese nationals sought for  questioning in connection with an unspecified, unconfirmed  threat against the city of Boston has been in U.S. custody for  more than two months, the FBI said on Saturday.