Chinese police round up petitioners as party meeting enters third day
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Police have rounded up more than 300 people from a squatter area in southern Beijing where petitioners from all over China have been staying as a key Communist Party meeting convened for a third day Saturday, witnesses say.
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China's ruling party leadership were locked in a much-anticipated meeting in Beijing amid an apparent power struggle at the heart of the 68-million-member organization.
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China has invited four newly elected pro-democracy lawmakers for talks in a conciliatory gesture after weekend legislative elections, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
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Chinese police detained 65 North Korean asylum-seekers in Beijing, South Korean activists said Wednesday, accusing China of carrying out &quot;hardline measures&quot; to round up refugees from its ally North Korea.
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Bloggers have used the Internet to force Chinese officials into investigating what appears to have been a brutal beating by other government officials.
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Chinese police have banned a conference involving hemophiliac activists and are believed to be holding one of the main organizers for questioning, a source close to the organizers said on Saturday.
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BEIJING -- China announced more arrests and a provincial governor apologized yesterday as the government stepped up it efforts to try to show it was responding to a growing slave labor scandal.
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Chinese Communist leaders are to hold a key meeting amid fears that corruption is undermining their rule.
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Police by the thousands patrolled this central Chinese town Monday and residents remained indoors after deadly street fights. On Monday, minivans with loudspeakers drove
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A small but growing band of Chinese lawyers is pushing for reform in the country's courts. The political hurdles are huge, but their case is being heard
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A top Hong Kong opposition lawmaker said he was barred from entering China yesterday, an incident that may fuel anti-Beijing sentiment in upcoming legislative elections. Law Chi-kwong of the Democratic Party said the mainland government assured him he could visit for six days, in what seemed to be a conciliatory gesture by the authorities, who have branded pro-democracy figures here ...
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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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HONG KONG - Hundreds of people clashed with riot police in a village in southern China, leaving some villagers hospitalized, a news report said Thursday.  Hong Kong's Cable TV broadcast footage from villagers that showed them scuffling with police in riot gear Tuesday.
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China's progress on protection of human rights was on display at a symposium on Thursday, but dozens of residents and petitioners were left outside, saying they were barred from entering.
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By Qiu Quanlin  GUANGZHOU: Officials fro
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ONG KONG, Aug. 17  An already heated election campaign for the legislature here took an unexpected turn today with an announcement by the Democratic Party that one of its candidates had been arrested in mainland China on charges of ...
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Protesters gather in Beijing claiming they have been illegally evicted, beaten and had their homes demolished as China prepares to host the Olympic games