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Hong Kong investigators on Wednesday dropped a case that alleged Yahoo!'s Hong Kong branch aided China in the prosecution and ten-year imprisonment of journalist Shi Tao for divulging state secrets abroad....

The Chinese parliament will consider amending a law allowing the state to send criminal suspects to labor camps without a trial during the National People's Congress (NPC) scheduled for next week, the China Daily reported...

A Chinese court rejected the final appeal Friday of Chen Guangcheng , a blind Chinese human rights legal activist, who was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for damaging property and "organizing...

In two separate rulings on Friday, Chinese courts rejected the appeals of a journalist and rights activist who challenged the government. In a five-minute session, the Beijing High Court rejected an appeal by Zhao Yan , a...

A Chinese intermediate appellate court has overturned and remanded back to the trial court the case of Chen Guangcheng , a blind Chinese human rights legal activist who was sentenced in August to four years...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she raised concerns over China's human rights records during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing that focused on North Korea and Iran's nuclear...

Leading Thursday's international brief, international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the Sudanese government has entered a prolonged campaign of randomly bombing civilian locations in the Darfur region [JURIST...

Chen Guangcheng , a blind Chinese human rights legal activist, was sentenced Thursday to four years and three months in prison for damaging property and "organizing a mob to disturb traffic." Chen supporters have said, however, that...

The trial of blind Chinese human rights legal activist Chen Guangcheng for illegal assembly and intent to destroy public property was thrown into confusion Friday when Chinese police arrested three of his lawyers, who were accused...

Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , an association that promotes freedom of speech, faces up to 15 years in jail on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by...