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China pressured U.S. university to make him leave, dissident says
ReutersBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University, accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure"...Tags: PBS (tv network), U.S. Embassy, Education, Fordham University, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chinese dissident to leave New York University shortly
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who left his home country last year and became a visiting scholar at New York University, will leave the school this summer but will likely remain in the United States, university officials said on...Tags: New York City, Beijing (China), U.S. Embassy, Education, Fordham University
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Jailed China dissident's wife decries injustice in letter to Xi
ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has written an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, protesting against her house arrest and her brother's jailing, which activists have called official retribution on the...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Justice System, Human Rights Watch, Punishment, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Hong Kong may not be asylum NSA leaker Edward Snowden hoped for
BEIJING -- Of all the places in the world for man on the run from the U.S. government, Hong Kong was an unlikely destination for Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old contractor identified as the source of leaks about the U.S. electronic surveillance program....Tags: Human Rights Watch, Treaties, Beijing (China), PRISM (surveillance program), Crime, Law and Justice
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China grants dissident's brother passport ahead of Xi-Obama meet
ReutersBy Ben Blanchard BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) - China has granted passports to the mother and eldest brother of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng which they hope to use to visit him in the United States, the brother said in Friday, a concession by...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Xi Jinping, Interior Policy, Entertainment Events, China
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Grupos DDHH piden a Obama que presione a Xi por reos polÃticos en China
ReutersWASHINGTON, 6 jun (Reuters) - Legisladores estadounidenses y 30 grupos de derechos humanos exhortaron el jueves al presidente Barack Obama a utilizar una cumbre este fin de semana con su par chino, Xi Jinping, para presionar por la libertad de 16...Tags: Bill Clinton, China, Liu Xiaobo, Washington, DC, Karen Bass
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China warns blind dissident ahead of Taiwan trip
ReutersBEIJING, May 23 (Reuters) - China warned blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng on Thursday to mind his language ahead of his trip next month to political rival Taiwan, on a visit which could infuriate Beijing if, as expected, Chen uses it to criticise...Tags: China, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Taiwan, Dalai Lama
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Ai Weiwei at work on a heavy-metal rock album and movie project
Ai Weiwei isn't able to leave Beijing because of his ongoing legal battles with the Chinese government, but the world comes to him. The artist is keeping busy with projects that include a planned heavy-metal album and a new movie. Ai's debut album...
Tags: Festive Events, Ai Weiwei, Arts and Culture, Artists, Movies
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China activists urge visits to confined wife of dissident
Her eyes showing anguish behind her glasses, Liu Xia whispers urgently into the ear of one of the Chinese activists who barrels past the guard at her Beijing apartment – a place that has become her prison. The brief video of their Friday...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Christian Bale, Beijing (China), U.S. Embassy, Activism
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Chinese officials linked to forced-abortion scandal punished
World NowSeveral Chinese officials tied to a forced abortion that spurred national outrage will be punished and one has already been dropped from his post, according to Chinese state media.... -
Blind Chinese Activist Chen Arrives In New York
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the...Tags: Greenwich Village, Beijing (China), U.S. Embassy, Crime, Law and Justice, United Air Lines
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A Dissident Reminds Us Of Memorial Day's Value
Memorial Day is — and should be — about remembering American sacrifices in war. It therefore may seem odd to look to a Chinese man as the exemplar of the holiday's meaning. But it is by no means a stretch. Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng...Tags: China, Memorial Day, Prisons, Holidays, Politics
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