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 Iranian Cops Raid 
 Nobel Winner's Office 

Prosecutors claim Shirin Ebadi's organization was acting as political party

Dec 21, 08 1:57 PM CST
(Newser) - Iranian police today raided the office of a human rights group led by Nobel prize-winning activist Shirin Ebadi, Reuters reports. The office was hours away from hosting a Human Rights Day celebration when cops shut it down. "We will protest against it," said Ebadi. "It will not... More »

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Iran • human rights • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • police raids • human rights activists

Tibetans Push Lama Toward Harder Stance on China

Even leader sees that time's running out on non-confrontational 'middle way'

Nov 24, 08 1:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Tibetans still support the Dalai Lama’s “middle way” policy of negotiating for greater autonomy under Chinese rule, the Christian Science Monitor reports, but a conference of Tibetan exiles that ended today in India revealed many are growing impatient with Beijing’s endless foot-dragging. Members of the conference said... More »

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China • human rights • India • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Buddhism • dissidents • Dharamsala

EU Honors Chinese Dissident, Enraging Beijing

Hu Jia is serving a prison sentence for 'subversion'

Oct 23, 08 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - A move by the European Parliament to award a major human-rights prize to a Chinese dissident has Beijing outraged on the eve of a summit on the economic crisis, the Telegraph reports. The government denounced as “gross interference in China's domestic affairs” news that the jailed Hu Jia had... More »

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China • human rights • prison • Nicolas Sarkozy • political prisoner • dissidents • Jose Manuel Barroso • Hu Jia • European Parliament • Sakharov Prize

French Relations With China 'Set Right,' Sarkozy Says

President talks human rights with leaders hosting Beijing visit

Aug 8, 08 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy says the relationship between France and China had been “set right again” in talks today with the Chinese leadership, AFP reports. "I had a lunch and a meeting with the Chinese president and a meeting with the prime minister. I talked about human rights, I handed... More »

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China • human rights • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • 2008 Beijing Olympics • dissidents • political freedoms

 Bush: 'Deep
 Concerns' on
 Rights in China

President lands in Beijing for opening ceremonies

Aug 7, 08 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush landed in Beijing today for the Olympics’ opening ceremony, but not before outlining his “deep concerns” about human rights in the Chinese regime. “America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents, human-rights advocates, and religious activists,” Bush said in a speech in... More »

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China • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • religious freedom • George W. Bush

 Bush Readies Salvo 
 on China's Rights Record 

President's speech tomorrow will express 'deep concern,' US' 'firm opposition'

Aug 6, 08 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush will urge the Chinese government toward greater openness and civil freedom, according to excerpts from a speech he’s scheduled give tomorrow in Thailand, the New York Times reports. Bush will keep his criticism mild, not wishing to use his visit to the Olympics to blast Beijing on... More »

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China • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • George W. Bush

 Slowly but Steadily,
 Rights Gaining in China 

Dynamic economy means people's freedoms are slowly growing

Aug 2, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the Olympics casting an unflattering spotlight on the state of human rights in China, the New York Times takes a longer view, reporting that freedoms have gradually expanded over decades of economic reform. Repression remains in public expression and assembly, but Chinese people can now often live where they... More »

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China • human rights • authoritarianism • Chinese judiciary • Chinese Communist party

Architect: China Stadium
Is 'Trojan Horse' for Liberty

Herzog defends decision to design for China

Jul 30, 08 9:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - There’s no shame in designing a cultural icon for China’s government, says Jacques Herzog, the man behind the already famous “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium in Beijing. Though he deplores the regime’s political record, Herzog saw taking the project as a way to change more in... More »

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China • architecture • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • stadium • Trojan • political freedoms

Bush Meets 5 China Dissidents Ahead of Games

White House steps up support for human rights before Olympics

Jul 30, 08 6:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush welcomed five prominent Chinese dissidents to the White House yesterday, a week before he leaves for the Olympics. The invitation was one of several moves to intensify pressure on Beijing to respect human rights. Earlier in the day, Bush urged the Chinese foreign minister, who was meeting with... More »

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China • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • dissidents • Stephen Hadley • Yang Jiechi • George W. Bush

Dissonant Ads Put Agency in Olympic Bind

Pitches for Adidas, Amnesty conflict—and inflame China opinion

Jul 14, 08 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A major advertising firm finds itself in an awkward predicament, the Wall Street Journal reports, after realizing it produced ads to drum up patriotic support for Chinese athletes in the Beijing Olympics as well as graphic spots criticizing China's human-rights record for Amnesty International. New York-based TBWA Worldwide has renounced... More »

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human rights • advertising • Amnesty International • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Adidas • TBWA • ad campaign

 Europe Votes to
 Lift Cuba Sanctions 

Washington 'disappointed' by decision

Jun 20, 08 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The European Union has agreed to lift sanctions against Cuba, much to the annoyance of the White House. "We see encouraging signs in Cuba and I think that we should show the population in Cuba that we are ready to work with them," an EU official tells the... More »

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human rights • Spain • European Union • Fidel Castro • Cuba • sanctions • Raul Castro • National Security Council • EU External Relations Commission

ANALYSIS

High Court's Gitmo Ruling Raises Election Issue

Landmark ruling could be lightning rod for focus on the court's direction

Jun 14, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees may put the court in the election spotlight for the first time in decades, Linda Greenhouse writes in the New York Times. The dramatic language of Antonin Scalia's dissent could be a signpost for conservatives worried about the court's course; because of the... More »

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human rights • judge • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • US Supreme Court • campaign issues

China Hackers Target Critical Congressman

GOP's Wolf, tough on human rights, says FBI traced cybercrime

Jun 11, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese hackers infiltrated four computers belonging to a member of Congress who is an outspoken critic of that country's human rights record, the Los Angeles Times reports. The FBI discovered that Republican Rep. Frank Wolf's machines had been "compromised" by hackers stationed in China, beginning as early as 2006;... More »

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China • Congress • human rights • hackers • spying • computers • Frank Wolf

 US Slammed for Secret
 'Floating Prisons' 

Prisoners held far from courts and scrutiny, human rights group charges

Jun 2, 08 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US has detained terror suspects on some 17 naval ships that have been used as secret "floating prisons" around the world since 2001, according to a study by the human rights organization Reprieve. At least 50 prisoners were held on a single ship and delivered to unknown locations,... More »

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War on Terror • rendition • human rights • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • US Navy • human rights violations • detainees

 Amnesty Again Demands
 Gitmo Closure 

'World leaders are in a state of denial' on human-rights abuses, group charges

May 28, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US has “distinguished itself in recent years through defiance of international law,”  says human-rights advocate Amnesty International in its annual reports, released today. The group called for the closure of Guantanamo Bay and other secret detention centers , the New York Times reports, and the prosecution of... More »

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Darfur • human rights • Amnesty International • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Guantanamo Bay • Chechnya • human rights violations • human rights activists

Olympic Boycott Is a 'Cop-Out': Bush Adviser

Says skipping opening ceremony isn't effective protest against China

Apr 13, 08 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The foreign dignitaries opting to skip the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony are engaging in a "cop-out," said President Bush's national security adviser today. What's more, claimed Stephen Hadley, they're missing an opportunity to meaningfully pressure China via behind-the-scenes diplomacy—as the US is doing. Bush has said he... More »

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China • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Opening Ceremony • human rights abuse • Stephen Hadley • George W. Bush

 Clinton to Bush: Skip Olympics 

Candidate cites Darfur and Tibet as reasons not to go

Apr 7, 08 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton urged President Bush today to skip the Beijing Olympics over China's role in the Darfur genocide and violence in Tibet, Politico reports. She joined ranks with Nancy Pelosi in calling for Bush to protest Beijing's human rights record "absent major changes by the Chinese government," Clinton... More »

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China • Nancy Pelosi • Hillary Clinton • Darfur • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • human rights abuse • George W. Bush • Olympic boycotts

China Plans 'Education' of Tibetan Monks

Beijing's move to enforce loyalty raises fears of more violence

Apr 5, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fed up with protests from Tibetan monks, Beijing said today it will step up a campaign of "patriotic education," the AP reports. Beijing will try to force monks to denounce the Dalai Lama and declare their loyalty to China, adding to worries that the current tension over human... More »

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China • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Sichuan province

House Speaker Calls on Bush
to Snub Olympic Ceremonies

Pelosi urges move to protest 'oppression'

Apr 1, 08 4:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - House speaker Nancy Pelosi calls on President Bush to consider skipping the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics in an interview airing today, ABC reports. Pelosi, a fierce critic of China's human rights record, isn't suggesting an American boycott of the games themselves, but. she says that it was a... More »

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China • Nancy Pelosi • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Dalai Lama • boycott • George W. Bush

South Korea
to Back UN on North Korea

Seoul shifts gears to join in criticism of
human rights record

Mar 26, 08 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Korea is set to vote in favor of a United Nations resolution that criticizes the "systematic, widespread, and grave violations" of human rights in North Korea, the AP reports. The South's new president, Lee Myung-bak, is changing a decade of precedent: earlier administrations have either abstained or been... More »

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North Korea • United Nations • South Korea • human rights • Lee Myung-bak • human rights violations

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