Chinese AIDS campaigner freed to receive US award
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A high-profile AIDS campaigner being held under house arrest in China has said the disease remained &quot;a tragedy for the Chinese people&quot; after the authorities confirmed she would be freed to receive an award in the United States.
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Dr. Gao Yaojieâs detention sheds light on Chinaâs intolerance for grass-roots AIDS activists.
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Vietnam has released one of its best-known dissidents from prison, two weeks before its president is to make a historic visit to the United States, an official said Sunday.
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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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China is to allow a critic of its HIV/Aids policy to receive an award in the US - a reversal of its earlier stance.
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BEIJING  &#151; A Chinese AIDS activist who was organizing a symposium to help people with the disease fight for their legal rights has gone missing after meeting with police, his advocacy group said Saturday.
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BEIJING, Sept. 15 -- A jailed researcher for the New York Times was released in Beijing at about 8:15 a.m. Saturday after serving a three-year sentence for accepting money from a source, a charge he denies.
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A US man jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans is freed, officials say.
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"We strongly support the release of the Bulgarian nurses in Libya"  US President George W. Bush said yesterday it was a high priority for the United States to win the release of five Bulgaria n nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV. via People's Daily Online
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BEIJING -- A Chinese doctor who exposed the cover up of China's SARS outbreak in 2003 has been barred from traveling to the United States to collect a human rights award, a friend of the doctor and a human rights group said this week.
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A Beijing appeals court upheld a fraud conviction against a Chinese researcher for The New York Times.
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An Australian who became the first person convicted at an American war crimes trial since World War II was freed from prison on Saturday, after completing his U.S. imposed sentence.
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A veteran Hong Kong reporter jailed in China for espionage activities has been freed, local radio station RTHK reported on its website.
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Vietnam frees dissident Pham Hong Son, jailed four years ago for posting a US article on democracy.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 -- A federal judge Thursday dismissed all charges against a Chinese American woman accused of using a sexual affair with an FBI agent to gain unauthorized access to classified documents.
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A UGANDAN is among four Britons to be released from Guantanamo Bay detention camp, where the US is holding suspected terrorists captured from Afghanistan.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while working for the New York Times expects to be freed at the weekend, his family and a lawyer said, ending a controversial prison term that highlighted the country's tough media controls.