China frees Hong Kong journalist ahead of Olympics
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China on Tuesday freed a Hong Kong-based reporter for a Singaporean newspaper jailed for five years for spying for Taiwan after intense lobbying from activists and politicians for clemency ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
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Chinese officials in Hong Kong have confirmed to the BBC that two former colleagues have been jailed after being convicted of spying for Britain.
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A Chinese court on Friday rejected an appeal by a Hong Kong reporter jailed by mainland China on spying charges in one of the highest profile media prosecutions in recent years.
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Authorities Monday freed an independent journalist who had opposed Cuba's communist government, bringing to seven the number of political prisoners released in a week.
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A Chinese court on Friday upheld a guilty verdict against a Hong Kong-based Singapore newspaper reporter who was sentenced to prison for five years for espionage, state media and his family said.
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The case, along with the detention of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, has prompted international concern about ChinaÂs crackdown on press freedom.
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A reporter accused of spying for Taiwan was put on trial in China's capital Tuesday, Hong Kong television and a human rights activist said in reporting the latest in a string of espionage cases against people with overseas ties.
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The spying conviction against a prominent Hong Kong journalist has brought criticism against China from human rights and media advocacy groups.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza Strip, setting him free after 114 days of captivity.
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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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International press groups denounced  new Chinese curbs on the dissemination of foreign news as a  step backwards ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when  thousands of journalists will descend on the country's capital.
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BEIJING, Feb. 9 -- A senior editor at a Chinese newspaper has been released from prison after serving four years on corruption charges that journalists said were trumped up by local officials to retaliate for aggressive reporting.
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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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Journalist held hostage in Gaza Strip since March, has been released, BBC confirms.
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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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Chinese police have arrested a journalist accused of faking an investigative report on buns stuffed with shredded cardboard that made headlines around the world, and Beijing Television apologized for airing the footage.
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Zhao Yan, a Chinese research assistant for The New York Times, was released from a Beijing prison.