China releases leading dissident
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Chinese dissident Liu Jingsheng is freed after a decade in jail but says his freedom of speech is limited.
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Hector Palacios, a well-known dissident jailed in a Cuban government crackdown on the opposition three years ago, was unexpectedly released from prison Wednesday, a leading rights activist said.
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A leader of China's underground Protestant church has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence for distributing Bibles and other religious literature without a business license, an overseas monitoring group said Sunday.
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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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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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China has secretly executed a man who protested against the controversial Pubugou dam project, his lawyer says.
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Yangon: Myanmar&#39;s junta has freed the nation&#39;s number two political prisoner as part of a release of 4,000 inmates, as analysts questioned the gesture&#39;s potential impact on democratic reform in the military-ruled state.
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Military-ruled Myanmar has released at least 11 dissidents among more than 5,000 prisoners freed in its latest mass release, opposition parties and officials said.
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Cuban authorities on Tuesday released RaÃºl Rivero, a dissident poet and journalist who spent 20 months and 6 days behind bars for conspiring with the US government to overthrow President Fidel Castro.
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Chinese police detained prominent   dissident Hu Jia on Thursday morning, his family said, adding   to the list of human rights activists held or harassed by the   country's dissent-wary government.
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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s military government has freed the country&#39;s second most prominent political prisoner, student democracy leader Min Ko Naing, an opposition party spokesman told AFP.
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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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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.
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen who police   said was detained on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the   communist government and destroy the U.S. consulate, was   released and deported on Thursday, officials said.
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A Chinese journalist for the New York Times is freed after spending almost three years in jail in China.
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Vietnamese officials release leading dissident Nguyen Vu Binh, who was convicted of spying in 2003.
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China has detained two prominent intellectuals in what appears to be a renewed crackdown on dissent by authorities, family members and sources said.