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USA: Jerry Yang is Being Urged by Amnesty International to Lobby China for Release of Jailed Journalist Shi Tao
On Eve of Opening of US-Based Human Rights Museum on China, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is Being Urged by Amnesty International to...
March 27, 2011
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China: No Investigation, No Redress and Still No Freedom of Speech!
In 1989, millions across China gathered peacefully to pursue fundamental freedoms promised in the Chinese Constitution....
March 27, 2011
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CHINA and USA: Amnesty International Challenges China’s Continued Secrecy in Death Penalty Executions
In a new report, Death Sentences and Executions in 2009, released today, Amnesty International challenged the Chinese...
March 27, 2011
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China and USA: Google Challenges China to End Censorship
Google has challenged the Chinese authorities to respect the principle of freedom of expression provided for in the Chinese...
March 27, 2011
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China: Google’s Stand Against Internet Censorship
Amnesty International USA's (AIUSA) Board of Directors commended Google, Inc., for its decision to openly oppose censorship...
March 27, 2011
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China: Amnesty International Calls for the Release of Prominent China Dissident Facing ‘Subervsion’ Trial
Liu Xianbin is being tried in Sichuan province for "incitement to subvert state power" over articles he wrote in 2009 that...
March 27, 2011
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China: Censorship of the internet must stop in China
Amnesty International has again urged the Chinese authorities to end censorship of the internet after the online firm,...
March 27, 2011
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China: Internet Activists Arrested
More than 100 activists, many of them active on Twitter and blogging networks, have been detained, subjected to monitoring...
March 27, 2011
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USA: Jerry Yang is Being Urged by Amnesty International to Lobby China for Release of Jailed Journalist Shi Tao
On Eve of Opening of US-Based Human Rights Museum on China, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is Being Urged by Amnesty International to...
March 27, 2011
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China: Chinese Crackdown on Uighur Writers Continues as Web Editor Jailed
Amnesty International Media ReleaseFor Immediate Release Monday, March 07, 2011Chinese Crackdown on Uighur Writers Continues as Web Editor Jailed, Says Amnesty InternationalContact: AIUSA media relations office, 202-509-8194 (Washington, D.C.) An ethnic Uighur website manager who was sentenced to seven years in jail in China after a secret trial is the latest in a series of Uighur writers imprisoned for peaceful expression of cultural or political views, Amnesty International said today.Tursunjan Hezim, a 38-year-old former history teacher, was reportedly detained shortly after the July 5, 2009 protests in Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), which turned violent after police…
March 27, 2011
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China: Amnesty International Urges China to Stop Crackdown on Foreign Reporters
China?s recent crackdown on foreign journalists covering potential protests inspired by events in the Middle East and North...
March 27, 2011
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Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Puts Spotlight on China Rights Violations
Amnesty International Press ReleaseFor Immediate ReleaseFriday, October 8, 2010Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize Win Puts Spotlight on China Rights Violations, Says Amnesty International--Human rights organization congratulates latest recipient of prestigious awardContact: AIUSA media relations office, 202-509-8194(Washington, D.C.) Amnesty International today congratulated Liu Xiaobo as he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize and called on the Chinese authorities to release all prisoners of conscience detained in the country including Liu. Liu, a 54-year-old scholar and author, who won the prize for his outstanding contribution to human rights, is currently serving an 11-year sentence on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”…
March 27, 2011