Chinese authorities in Beijing on Friday began the trial against Wang Lihong, one of the dozens of human rights activists the government detained earlier this year as part of a crackdown on dissidents in the country. Wang is charged...
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The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called for the immediate release of Chinese rights activist and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo , according to UN documents from May released Monday...
Prominent Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia was released from prison on Sunday after serving three years for a subversion conviction. Hu was formally charged in February 2008 and subsequently sentenced to more than...
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances called Wednesday for China to address its practice of "enforced disappearances" and reveal the location of 355 detained Tibetan monks . In April, Chinese...
The US State Department (DOS) urged the Chinese government on Friday to release protesters arrested for the peaceful protests in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Friday marked the twenty-second anniversary of the suppression...
The US Department of State (DOS) on Friday released the 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices . The report outlined three prevailing trends that shaped human rights in 2010. These included the growth of nongovernmental organizations...
China has failed to achieve the goals it set out in its first national human rights plan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) declared in a report released on Tuesday. In its assessment of the government's National Human...
China dissident Liu Xiaobo awarded Nobel Peace Prize in absentia
Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia Friday in Oslo, Norway. The prize was laid in an empty chair following the ceremony. It would normally be...
China court official criticizes Nobel committee for awarding peace prize to Liu Xiaobo
A spokesperson for China's Municipal Higher People's Court on Friday criticized those responsible for granting the Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo . Liu, who was awarded the 2010 Peace Prize [JURIST...
Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo was announced Friday as the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize , "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." Liu has...