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Human Rights Day A Beijing Protest on International Human Rights Day [WSJ] 300 Chinese Activists Sign Public Call for Rights [AP] Leading Chinese Dissident, Liu Xiaobo, Arrested over Freedom Charter [Times Online] Activists Detained: New Crackdown or One... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Wed, Dec 10 2008

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22 Apr 08		Pledge to address human rights issue » People's Daily Despite achievements in advancing human rights, the country does not ignore existing problems and pledges to solve them, a leading Chinese human rights expert said yesterday. "People's civil and political rights are protected, but there ...
22 Apr 08		China to keep advancing human rights » People's Daily The Beijing Forum on Human Rights sponsored by the China Society for Human Rights Studies is a great event for the international human rights community. Under the theme of "Development, Security and Human Rights," the forum has gathered hum ...
02 Aug 08		Why are the Chinese so upset about the Western human rights activists and advocate journalists? Do not violate my Chinese feelings, or, rather, sensibilities. » Blogging For China After lamenting Western misunderstandings of the Chinese, their political arrangements and culture, it behooves to examine some Chinese misunderstandings of the West with regard to the attention their country has received from human rights activists and...
12 Feb 09		China reacts to UN review of human rights, further efforts promised » People's Daily Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Thursday responded to a review of the country's human rights, vowing to continuously promote the cause. The UN Human Rights council on Wednesday ended its first review of China's human rights...
03 Feb 09		Chinese Human Rights lawyer "vanishes" » angrychineseblogger When human rights activists start vanishing in China, you often don't have to look very far to see who is to blame.

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