Two of Hong Kong's leading political figures have weighed in on the controversy surrounding the recent death in China of a high-profile dissident who had spent more than 20 years in jail for his support of the Tiananmen Square protests. full story ![]()
Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese dissident who escaped from house arrest in April 2012, testified in person before Congress for the first time Thursday about China’s human rights violations.
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Wary of dissident Tibetan groups making Nepal a hub for their anti-China activities, Beijing appears to have taken to squeezing the Himalayan nation.
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Wary of dissident Tibetan groups making Nepal a hub for their anti-China activities, Beijing appears to have taken to squeezing the Himalayan nation on the issue by using its developmental initiatives there as a counter-pressure tactic.
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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng appealed to Congress Tuesday to press the Obama administration to release what he said were high-level diplomatic agreements made with China when then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton negotiated his departure from China nearly a year ago. Read full article >>
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A day after the death of 2007 serial blasts accused Khalid Mujahid in police custody in transit, the postmortem failed to establish the cause of his death on Sunday, forcing the Uttar Pradesh government to call in the Central Bureau of Investigation for probe.
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Dutch investigation divides blame for Russian dissident Dolmatov's death; gov't to pay damages
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The mother of the teen shot to death by two police officers this month is demanding an independent investigation into [...]The post Kimani Gray’s mother calls for independent probe appeared first on Metro.us.
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The daughter of a prominent Cuban dissident killed in a car crash is pushing for an international investigation into how he died.
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Chen Guangcheng, in Silicon Valley to receive the Katharine and George Alexander Law Prize Monday night from Santa Clara University School of Law, was imprisoned in China after protesting the country's birth-control policy.
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Campaigners have called for a fresh probe into Britain's worst ever mass tap-water poisoning incident after it was linked to a second death.
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