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China ex-newspaper editor released from prison early

February 10, 2008 11:27:00 AM

Former Chinese newspaper editor Yu Huafeng has been released early from prison after serving four years on corruption charges , Reporters without Borders said Saturday. Yu and his colleague Li Minying were both convicted...

February 5, 2008 08:44:00 AM

A Chinese court convicted dissident writer Lu Gengsong on subversion charges Tuesday, sentencing Lu to four years in prison for writing essays exposing corruption within the Communist Party of China (CPC) . Lu was arrested last October and...

February 1, 2008 09:05:00 AM

Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia has been formally arrested and charged with inciting subversion of state power, his lawyer said Friday. His lawyer said that Hu's father had been allowed to visit Hu in jail recently, marking the...

January 18, 2008 02:26:00 PM

A Chinese dissident writer will face trial next week on subversion charges related to essays exposing corruption within the Communist Party of China , the writer's wife told AP Friday. Lu Gengsong was arrested last October...

January 9, 2008 08:23:00 AM

A Hong Kong court ruled Tuesday that the Chinese special administrative region's Telecommunications Ordinance was unconstitutional because it violates the freedom of expression guaranteed by Hong Kong's Basic Law and Bill of Rights by giving the government...

January 2, 2008 07:03:00 PM

John Kamm "The detention of Hu Jia on December 27, 2007 for "incitement to subversion" is the most important move against the small but increasingly defiant community of human rights defenders and dissidents in...

December 30, 2007 10:04:00 AM

Chinese Human Rights Defenders said Saturday that human rights activist Hu Jia has been detained on charges of inciting subversion of state power . According to the advocacy group, Hu was arrested on Thursday in connection to "his...

December 5, 2007 02:47:00 PM

A group of renowned Chinese lawyers and academics Tuesday released an open letter to the Chinese government , calling for the end of "re-education" labor camps. The scholars said the camps, originally designed in 1957 to deal...

November 30, 2007 05:25:00 PM

Joshua Rosenzweig : "The recently-published statistics for 2006 on political arrests in China are especially troubling, as they indicate the reversal of a three-year trend from 2003 to 2005 in which such arrests...

November 15, 2007 03:49:00 PM

The Tianhe District Court in China convicted lawyer and dissident writer Yang Maodong of conducting "illegal business activity" and sentenced him to serve five years in prison and pay more than $5,000 in fines,...

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