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China Jails 2 Prominent Human Rights Lawyers For Over 10 Years
- Monday April 10, 2023
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, including one who had called for leader Xi Jinping to resign, have been jailed for over a decade, an advocacy group and one of the men's wives said Monday.
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Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Detained For "Inciting State Subversion": Police
- Wednesday January 19, 2022
- World News | Agence France-Presse
A human rights lawyer has been detained in China on suspicion of "inciting state subversion", according to an official notice obtained by his wife weeks after he spoke out for a hospitalised teacher.
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Wife Of Activist Barred From Leaving China Dies After 15 Years Apart
- Tuesday January 11, 2022
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The wife of a repeatedly detained Chinese human rights lawyer died of cancer on Monday in the United States after her husband's pleas to be allowed to leave China and reunite with her went ignored, rights activists said.
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EU Demands Release Of Chinese Citizen Journalist Arrested For Reporting On Covid
- Tuesday December 29, 2020
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The European Union on Tuesday demanded that China release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan and several other jailed reporters, lawyers and human rights champions.
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Police Video Of Chinese Lawyer Yu Wensheng's Arrest Raises Questions
- Wednesday January 24, 2018
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Chinese authorities appear to be mounting a smear campaign against a detained human rights lawyer by releasing a seemingly edited police video which shows him resisting arrest and then swinging at an officer, campaigners say.
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China's Probes Of Rights Lawyers 'Alarming': Human Rights Watch
- Wednesday September 20, 2017
- World News | Reuters
China has launched more rigorous investigations into the activities and finances of rights lawyers and law firms that take on politically sensitive issues, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, in its multi-year campaign to stiffle dissent.
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China Lawyer's Wife's Dramatic Escape, With Help From US Officials
- Wednesday May 10, 2017
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Chen Guiqiu fled China on foot with her two daughters, only to end up in a Thai prison until US officials helped them sneak out dramatically through a back door.
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Vatican Row As China Invited To Organ Transplant Meet
- Wednesday February 8, 2017
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Ethics experts and human rights lawyers slammed the Vatican Tuesday for inviting a top Chinese health official to an organ trafficking summit despite concerns the Asian giant still uses tissue from executed prisoners.
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China Jails Rights Lawyer For 7 Years: Report
- Thursday August 4, 2016
- World News | Agence France-Presse
A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer was convicted of subversion and sentenced to seven years in prison today, state media reported -- the third such trial this week as authorities crack down on dissent.
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Fearing Secret Trial, Activists' Friends Protest China Court
- Monday August 1, 2016
- World News | Associated Press
Around two dozen supporters of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer and three activists charged with subversion protested outside a northern city court amid widespread concerns that authorities were holding their trials in secret.
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Anguish For Families Of Missing China Lawyers
- Friday January 8, 2016
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Every day Li Wenzu's son asks her why his daddy has not come home, she says. Her husband went missing six months ago in a sweeping crackdown on Chinese human rights lawyers, but she tells the three-year-old he is on a "business trip".
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China Rights Lawyer Gets Suspended Jail Sentence
- Tuesday December 22, 2015
- World News | Agence France-Presse
One of China's most celebrated human rights lawyers was given a three-year suspended prison term today in the latest clampdown on critics of the ruling Communist Party.
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Trial Of China Rights Lawyer Lasts 3 Hours, Police Block Court Access
- Monday December 14, 2015
- World News | Reuters
The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers, on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble, lasted just three hours today, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the Beijing court.
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Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Stands Trial In China
- Monday December 14, 2015
- World News | Reuters
Pu Zhiqiang, one of China's most well-known human rights lawyers, was tried today on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", in the country's most high-profile human rights trial this year.
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Chinese Rights Activist Jailed for 6 Years
- Friday November 27, 2015
- World News | Reuters
A prominent Chinese rights activist, Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years imprisonment today by a court in southern China, amid a continuing crackdown on human rights advocates across the country, his lawyer said today.
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China Jails 2 Prominent Human Rights Lawyers For Over 10 Years
- Monday April 10, 2023
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, including one who had called for leader Xi Jinping to resign, have been jailed for over a decade, an advocacy group and one of the men's wives said Monday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Detained For "Inciting State Subversion": Police
- Wednesday January 19, 2022
- World News | Agence France-Presse
A human rights lawyer has been detained in China on suspicion of "inciting state subversion", according to an official notice obtained by his wife weeks after he spoke out for a hospitalised teacher.
- www.ndtv.com
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Wife Of Activist Barred From Leaving China Dies After 15 Years Apart
- Tuesday January 11, 2022
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The wife of a repeatedly detained Chinese human rights lawyer died of cancer on Monday in the United States after her husband's pleas to be allowed to leave China and reunite with her went ignored, rights activists said.
- www.ndtv.com
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EU Demands Release Of Chinese Citizen Journalist Arrested For Reporting On Covid
- Tuesday December 29, 2020
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The European Union on Tuesday demanded that China release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan and several other jailed reporters, lawyers and human rights champions.
- www.ndtv.com
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Police Video Of Chinese Lawyer Yu Wensheng's Arrest Raises Questions
- Wednesday January 24, 2018
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Chinese authorities appear to be mounting a smear campaign against a detained human rights lawyer by releasing a seemingly edited police video which shows him resisting arrest and then swinging at an officer, campaigners say.
- www.ndtv.com
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China's Probes Of Rights Lawyers 'Alarming': Human Rights Watch
- Wednesday September 20, 2017
- World News | Reuters
China has launched more rigorous investigations into the activities and finances of rights lawyers and law firms that take on politically sensitive issues, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, in its multi-year campaign to stiffle dissent.
- www.ndtv.com
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China Lawyer's Wife's Dramatic Escape, With Help From US Officials
- Wednesday May 10, 2017
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Chen Guiqiu fled China on foot with her two daughters, only to end up in a Thai prison until US officials helped them sneak out dramatically through a back door.
- www.ndtv.com
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Vatican Row As China Invited To Organ Transplant Meet
- Wednesday February 8, 2017
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Ethics experts and human rights lawyers slammed the Vatican Tuesday for inviting a top Chinese health official to an organ trafficking summit despite concerns the Asian giant still uses tissue from executed prisoners.
- www.ndtv.com
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China Jails Rights Lawyer For 7 Years: Report
- Thursday August 4, 2016
- World News | Agence France-Presse
A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer was convicted of subversion and sentenced to seven years in prison today, state media reported -- the third such trial this week as authorities crack down on dissent.
- www.ndtv.com
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Fearing Secret Trial, Activists' Friends Protest China Court
- Monday August 1, 2016
- World News | Associated Press
Around two dozen supporters of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer and three activists charged with subversion protested outside a northern city court amid widespread concerns that authorities were holding their trials in secret.
- www.ndtv.com
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Anguish For Families Of Missing China Lawyers
- Friday January 8, 2016
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Every day Li Wenzu's son asks her why his daddy has not come home, she says. Her husband went missing six months ago in a sweeping crackdown on Chinese human rights lawyers, but she tells the three-year-old he is on a "business trip".
- www.ndtv.com
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China Rights Lawyer Gets Suspended Jail Sentence
- Tuesday December 22, 2015
- World News | Agence France-Presse
One of China's most celebrated human rights lawyers was given a three-year suspended prison term today in the latest clampdown on critics of the ruling Communist Party.
- www.ndtv.com
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Trial Of China Rights Lawyer Lasts 3 Hours, Police Block Court Access
- Monday December 14, 2015
- World News | Reuters
The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers, on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble, lasted just three hours today, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the Beijing court.
- www.ndtv.com
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Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Stands Trial In China
- Monday December 14, 2015
- World News | Reuters
Pu Zhiqiang, one of China's most well-known human rights lawyers, was tried today on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", in the country's most high-profile human rights trial this year.
- www.ndtv.com
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Chinese Rights Activist Jailed for 6 Years
- Friday November 27, 2015
- World News | Reuters
A prominent Chinese rights activist, Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years imprisonment today by a court in southern China, amid a continuing crackdown on human rights advocates across the country, his lawyer said today.
- www.ndtv.com