Rare retrial opens for blind China activist
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The retrial of a blind Chinese legal expert got under way on Monday after an appeals court overturned his controversial conviction for damaging property, but one of his lawyers stormed out of the courtroom and another was briefly detained.
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The Indonesian government on Thursday opened the retrial of an Indonesian cleric who is charged with leading an al Qaeda-linked group and inciting its members
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A Chinese research assistant for The Times served three years in prison on a conviction that sparked outrage.
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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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A blind man who was convicted of dangerous driving after he admitted being behind the wheel of a car that touched 35 mph in Oldbury, West Midlands, is due to be sentenced later on Monday.
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A witness who claimed he was coerced into testifying against a blind Chinese activist has been taken away by local police on the eve of a retrial of the case, the activist's lawyer said Sunday.
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Despite international outrage, legal activist Chen Guangcheng will languish in prison for years and China's human-rights record gets another black mark
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BEIJING, July 4 -- The wife of a blind legal activist, who was jailed after he revealed forced abortions and sterilizations, sneaked out of her house in the eastern province of Shandong and traveled to Beijing on Wednesday to plead her husband's case.
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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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Dr. Gao Yaojieâs detention sheds light on Chinaâs intolerance for grass-roots AIDS activists.
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This is just the beginning, activist  warns, as China tries to limit damage over Olympic row
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HONG KONG An already heated legislative election campaign here took an unexpected turn Tuesday with an announcement by the Democratic Party that one of its candidates has been arrested in mainland China and sentenced without trial to six months in ...
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BEIJING, Nov. 28 -- The wife of a blind legal activist was detained by police for eight hours Tuesday, then dragged out of a police minivan and dropped on the ground at the entrance to her home village, sobbing uncontrollably, lawyers and a relative said.
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China will allow an aged AIDS activist to travel to the United States to collect a human rights prize, relenting after her detention at home for two weeks raised an international outcry.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 22 September: China's chief justice has said that secret trials are resolutely prohibited in Chinese courts unless the law dictates a defendant should be tried behind closed doors.
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Andrea Bocelli is coming to China for the third time. The visually-impaired Italian tenor has become a world phenomenon over the last few years, bringing the house down with each concert finale whether he ...
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HONG KONG (CP) - Aubrey Flegg still remembers the thump of the bodies under his truck's wheels as he raced blind along Hong Kong's tortuous roads in a bid to rescue two wounded British women.