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• China crackdown flouts Olympic rights vow: activists

  - 2008-01-07

  BEIJING AFP — China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing. The arrest of Hu Jia, who was taken from his Beijing home on...

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• China ordains new Beijing bishop

  - 2007-09-21

  BEIJING AFP — China's official Catholic church on Friday installed a new Vatican-approved bishop of Beijing in a sign of quiet dialogue between China and the Holy See despite the lack of diplomatic relations. "Father Joseph Li Shan was ordained the bishop of Beijing in a ceremony held here...

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• Police in China search press group's rooms

  - 2007-08-06

  BEIJING AFP — Chinese police early Tuesday searched the hotel rooms of four press freedom campaigners visiting Beijing for a protest, after earlier detaining about a dozen journalists covering the event. Robert Menard, general secretary of press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, told AFP police had entered the rooms...

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• China closes down HIV/AIDS group

  - 2006-10-19

  BEIJING AFP — A non-government organization in China dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS and other health problems said it had been shut down because local authorities wanted to silence it. Chang Kun, a volunteer and organizer of the Xuelianhua AIDS project based in the western region of Xinjiang, said he was...

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• US asks China not to limit freedom ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

  - 2004-05-27

  WASHINGTON AFP ? The United States urged China not to restrict freedom of speech ahead of the 15th anniversary of the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown on June 4. China has reportedly stepped up harassment of relatives of people who lost their lives in Beijing's 1989 crackdown on democracy protestors...

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• China steps up harassment of Tiananmen democracy activists ahead of June 4

  - 2004-05-26

  BEIJING AFP ? China has stepped up harassment of relatives of people who lost their lives in the 1989 crackdown on democracy protestors in Tiananmen Square in an apparent effort to control dissent ahead of the 15th anniversary, they said. "Police came to my house this morning," Huang Jinping,...

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