Rare retrial opens for blind China activist
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The retrial of a blind Chinese legal expert began on Monday, after an appeals court overturned his controversial conviction for damaging property, but not before one of his lawyers was detained, witnesses said.
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The wife of a Chinese activist retried over public order offences is detained by police, lawyers say.
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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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CALLAO NAVAL BASE, Peru  - Peru began a retrial on  Friday of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, the guerrilla  who led a brutal "popular war" to impose communism on the  Andean nation from 1980 until his capture in 1992.
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China will next week try a blind human rights activist whose previous controversial conviction was overturned, his lawyer said on Wednesday, voicing fears the new trial will not hear claims that testimony was obtained through police torture.
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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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A jailed Chinese human rights activist has been beaten by other prisoners, Amnesty International says.
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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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A blind man convicted of dangerous driving is given a suspended jail sentence.
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Peru names a date for the retrial of Abimael Guzman, imprisoned leader of the Shining Path rebel group.
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BEIJING, Aug. 30 -- Defense attorneys for a blind rural activist sentenced to more than four years in prison said that they were prevented from meeting with their client privately on Wednesday and that authorities tried to stop them from preparing an appeal.
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Justice is blind and so are some judges &#151; at least in sports.
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BEIJING, Aug. 24 -- The wife of a blind, imprisoned legal activist was detained at the Beijing airport Friday by authorities, apparently on orders to prevent her from flying to the Philippines to receive an award on behalf of her husband, whose case has sparked international outrage and...
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Steve Gokey is unique among the 17,000 runners signed up for the Houston Marathon on Sunday. He is the only blind person in the 26.2-mile event.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Feeling music through speakers and guided by hand gestures, a troupe of deaf dancers in Beijing takes steps to champion the rights of disabled people around the world. In between them prances Luo Xiangjun, a 25-year-old from China's southern Guangxi region, who pauses to pick up a wooden ladle with his foot, then raises it to his head while balancing on one leg.
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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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China's most outspoken media voice discusses the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre and whether it could happen again.