U.S. calls arrest of Chinese activist "disturbing"
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The United States said on Monday the arrest in China of prominent AIDS activist and human rights campaigner Hu Jia was "disturbing" and Washington had raised his case with the authorities in Beijing.
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China remains "highly repressive," with routine violations of basic rights and widespread corruption despite promises of legal and political reform, the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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A prominent Syrian dissident, who the United States had urged be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment, has been arrested, a Syrian human rights group said Tuesday.
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A U.S.-based human rights group denounced on Tuesday the recent arrests of democracy activists by Syrian authorities and called for an investigation of alleged beatings during interrogations.
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was   detained in mid-August, a government spokesman said on Thursday   as rights groups complained he was arrested after using the   Internet to call for alternatives to one-party communist rule.
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By ALEXA OLESEN  BEIJING - A U.S. women's advocacy group said Tuesday it hopes that an apparent travel ban against a prominent Chinese AIDS activist can be lifted so she can be honored at a ceremony in Washington next month.  Dr.
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Chinese police detain prominent rights activist and Aids campaigner Hu Jia, amid talk of a growing crackdown.
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Chinese research assistant in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times has been detained on suspicion of revealing state secrets. The research assistant, Zhao Yan, was detained on Sept.
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China has detained three prominent intellectuals who criticized the government, sources said yesterday, in what some believe reflects a new crackdown on freedom of expression.
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Chinese authorities briefly detained at least three liberal intellectuals, sources close to the three said on Tuesday, as part of an intensified crackdown on government critics.
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Members of U.S. Congress have urged  Chinese President Hu Jintao to parole a U.S.-based scholar  jailed for entering China illegally and accused of spying.
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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, his lawyer said Friday.
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was being   detained on suspicion of plotting to destroy the U.S. Consulate   General and to overthrow the Vietnam government, state-run   media reported on Wednesday.
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BEIJING, Feb. 1 -- Hu Jia, an online human rights activist detained last month, has been formally charged with inciting subversion against the Chinese government, human rights groups reported Friday.
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Police in China have arrested rights activist Hu Jia and charged him with inciting subversion in a crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics next year, another activist and a rights group said Saturday.
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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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China has detained two prominent intellectuals in what appears to be a renewed crackdown on dissent by authorities, family members and sources said.