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China pressured U.S. university to make him leave, dissident says
ReutersBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University, accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure"...Tags: Education, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, PBS (tv network), Justice and Rights
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Chinese dissident to leave New York University shortly
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who left his home country last year and became a visiting scholar at New York University, will leave the school this summer but will likely remain in the United States, university officials said on...Tags: Education, New York City, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Embassy
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Jailed China dissident's wife decries injustice in letter to Xi
ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has written an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, protesting against her house arrest and her brother's jailing, which activists have called official retribution on the...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, European Union, Justice System, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights
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Hong Kong may not be asylum NSA leaker Edward Snowden hoped for
BEIJING -- Of all the places in the world for man on the run from the U.S. government, Hong Kong was an unlikely destination for Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old contractor identified as the source of leaks about the U.S. electronic surveillance program....Tags: Human Rights Watch, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, National Security Agency
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China grants dissident's brother passport ahead of Xi-Obama meet
ReutersBy Ben Blanchard BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) - China has granted passports to the mother and eldest brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng which they hope to use to visit him in the United States, the brother said in Friday, a concession by...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Beijing (China), Politics, Barack Obama, China
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Spying hangs over US-China summit
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Revelations of U.S. government surveillance programs threatened to complicate a first-time summit between President Barack Obama and new Chinese President Xi Jinping as they met Friday for two days of talks at a secluded California retreat....Tags: Personal Data Collection, Trips and Vacations, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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Grupos DDHH piden a Obama que presione a Xi por reos polÃticos en China
ReutersWASHINGTON, 6 jun (Reuters) - Legisladores estadounidenses y 30 grupos de derechos humanos exhortaron el jueves al presidente Barack Obama a utilizar una cumbre este fin de semana con su par chino, Xi Jinping, para presionar por la libertad de 16...Tags: Bill Clinton, Liu Xiaobo, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Karen Bass
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China warns blind dissident ahead of Taiwan trip
ReutersBEIJING, May 23 (Reuters) - China warned blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng on Thursday to mind his language ahead of his trip next month to political rival Taiwan, on a visit which could infuriate Beijing if, as expected, Chen uses it to criticise...Tags: Beijing (China), Travel, Trips and Vacations, China, Taiwan
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Ai Weiwei at work on a heavy-metal rock album and movie project
Ai Weiwei isn't able to leave Beijing because of his ongoing legal battles with the Chinese government, but the world comes to him. The artist is keeping busy with projects that include a planned heavy-metal album and a new movie. Ai's debut album...
Tags: Artists, Human Rights, Geneva (Swiss Confederation), Beijing (China), Music
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China activists urge visits to confined wife of dissident
Her eyes showing anguish behind her glasses, Liu Xia whispers urgently into the ear of one of the Chinese activists who barrels past the guard at her Beijing apartment – a place that has become her prison. The brief video of their Friday...
Tags: Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards
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Joel Brinkley: China's extreme birth control
American VoicesNow that Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident, is settling into a new life in the United States after decades of persecution by China's venal, autocratic government, he is receiving a hero's welcome he never anticipated and now does not appear...Tags: Social Issues, Abortion Issue, U.S. Department of State, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Joel Brinkley
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Chinese officials linked to forced-abortion scandal punished
World NowSeveral Chinese officials tied to a forced abortion that spurred national outrage will be punished and one has already been dropped from his post, according to Chinese state media....
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