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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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• Bush scolds China, Russia, others on press freedoms

  - 2007-05-03

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush on Thursday sharply criticized China, Cuba, Egypt, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Venezuela and other countries over restrictions or attacks on the news media. "No independent media are allowed in countries such as Cuba and North Korea, and those who attempt to...

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• Chinese AIDS campaigner freed to receive US award

  - 2007-02-16

  BEIJING AFP — A high-profile AIDS campaigner being held under house arrest in China has said the disease remained "a tragedy for the Chinese people" after the authorities confirmed she would be freed to receive an award in the United States. Gao Yaojie, a retired doctor who exposed the...

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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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• Freedom elusive for exiled Chinese Uighur Muslim leader

  - 2006-10-07

  WASHINGTON AFP — Twenty months after stepping out of prison, freedom remains elusive for Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled leader of China's Uighur Muslim minority and a top Asian nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. With about 100,000 Uighurs, including her three sons, languishing in jail for their political and religious...

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• US slams China for jailing blind activist

  - 2006-08-25

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States slammed Beijing for jailing a blind activist who exposed forced abortions and other abuses of the nation's one-child policy, saying it was part of a larger attempt to curb individual rights. A court in east China's Shandong province on Thursday sentenced Chen Guangcheng, 34,...

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• Harassment of Chinese exile's associates damages "cooperative spirit": US

  - 2005-05-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States warned that any harassment by Chinese authorities of recently released Muslim Uighur dissident Rebiya Kadeer's associates would damage bilateral cooperation. "We would see such actions as contrary to the cooperative spirit between our two countries that led to the release of Ms. Kadeer...

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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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