Asylum ruling leaves out Chinese spouses
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The husbands of women forced to abort a pregnancy, undergo involuntary sterilization or face persecution under China's coercive population control program do not automatically qualify for asylum, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
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Chinese Uighurs who have been imprisoned for the past month at a new state-of-the-art detention camp at  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being held around the clock in near-total isolation, a circumstance their lawyers say is rapidly degrading their mental health, according to an affidavit filed in federal court yesterday....
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A federal judge on Thursday threw  out the charges against a Chinese American woman accused of  taking national security materials from her FBI agent lover.
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LONDON: Hundreds of skilled and talented workers from Asia, especially Malaysia and China, have given up their dreams of working legally in the United Kingdom due to the stringent entry clearance ruling.
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A Chinese court has rejected a woman's  claims for compensation for her sex life, which was ruined when  her husband was injured in an accident, the Shanghai Daily  reported Thursday.
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A marriage between former chess grandmaster Bobby Fisher and a Japanese woman, that would help the American avoid being deported to the United States, is in limbo due to a legal snag, his lawyer has said.
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China's progress on protection of human rights was on display at a symposium on Thursday, but dozens of residents and petitioners were left outside, saying they were barred from entering.
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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 judge in Ireland has ruled that a lesbian couple who met in Boston and were married in Canada cannot be considered married in Ireland because the Irish Constitution limits marriage to a union between a man and a woman.
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(!!!!!!!) Add them in yourself Yahoo! has asked a US court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of "aiding and abetting" acts of torture and other human rights abuses against Chinese dissidents. The company handed over information about its users to the Chinese government, which led to the arrests of the dissidents.â¦
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Citing "willful and deliberate  misconduct" by prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday  dismissed the charges against a Chinese-American informant  accused of taking classified papers from her FBI agent lover.
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The husband of a critically-ill British  woman won a legal fight Tuesday to take his wife to Switzerland  to end her life, a ruling that throws Britain's tough laws  against assisting suicide into confusion.  A judge at London's  High Court said it was not for him to decide whether the  husband of a woman identified only as "Mrs. Z" should be  allowed to take her abroad to end her life and overturned a  temporary ban.
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A bureaucratic bungle was to blame for immigration officials' refusal to allow a leading Hong Kong democrat to enter China at the weekend, a senior Chinese envoy said in press reports.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A1 of the Dec. 30, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. IVY CATHERINE Tomenio, along with her Japanese husband and their three young children, left their
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The wife of an imprisoned blind Chinese activist denounced China for its human rights record and for preventing her from receiving a Philippine humanitarian award for her husband in Manila on Friday.
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The wife of a jailed Chinese activist was prevented from leaving the country today as she attempted to travel overseas to collect a human rights award on behalf of her husband. Yuan Weijing was detained at Beijing airport, her passport revoked and her mobile phone confiscated, according to friends.
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Australia's highest-profile family of asylum seekers have been deported to Pakistan, ending a four-year battle for sanctury.