China stops activist's wife leaving country
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China on Friday prevented the wife of a blind, jailed activist from going to the Philippines to collect a human rights award on his behalf by revoking her passport.
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China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing.
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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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A retired Chinese doctor who helped expose blood-buying schemes that infected thousands with HIV has been put under house arrest to stop her from traveling to Washington to be honored by a charity backed by Sen. Hillary Clinton, a friend said Monday.
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Police in central China have detained a woman who was being sought for more than four years in connection with the sale of dozens of babies across the country, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Russia halted operations of a U.S.-funded organization that trains Russian journalists and the head of the organization fled the country for fear she would be jailed, she and her lawyers said Friday.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been banned from leaving the country, her party says.
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BEIJING -- The wife of a Boston-area democracy activist jailed in China said yesterday she plans to seek medical parole for her husband after seeing him for the first time since he was detained in 2002.
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China's leadership collectively decided to crack down on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989, the oldest daughter of late Chinese supreme leader Deng Xiaoping said Sunday.
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A Boston-based democracy activist jailed in China is seeking a medical parole because of a stroke he suffered earlier this year, his wife says.
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BEIJING, Aug. 24 -- The wife of a blind, imprisoned legal activist was detained at the Beijing airport Friday after authorities prevented her from flying to the Philippines to receive an award on behalf of her husband, whose case has sparked international outrage and condemnation.
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Philippine courts granted former first lady Imelda Marcos permission on Thursday to leave the country for 15 days to travel to Hong Kong and China for medical treatment and to attend a trade show.
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Cindy Sheehan, the mother who became an anti-war leader after her soldier son was killed in Iraq, says she is walking away from the peace movement. Sheehan says her son died "for nothing" and her activism cost her her marriage and left her in debt.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been banned from leaving the country, her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) says.
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Prominent Chinese activist Hu Jia is formally arrested more than a month after being taken into custody.
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With the death of Zhao Ziyang on Monday, China has lost one of the few senior political voices who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre as well as its most famous political prisoner.
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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have detained a prominent, US-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said yesterday.