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China's Communist Party Politics and Law Committee head Meng Jianzhu on Monday notified Chinese media sources of the nation's plan to end its 56 year-old "re-education through labor" program , which authorizes government entities to...

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A Chinese court in the southwestern city of Chongqing on Friday quashed the sentence against a Chinese blogger and former forestry employee for lack of evidence. With the annulment of the sentence, the Chongqing Third Intermediate Court ruled [WP...

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The European Parliament on Thursday named Cuban activist Guillermo Farinas as the recipient of its 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought . Farinas has undergone multiple hunger strikes in support of political prisoners...

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Prominent Chinese rights activist Liu Xiaobo was tried Wednesday on charges of inciting subversion. The trial lasted only two hours and was closed to foreign diplomats. Liu, who spent two years in prison following the Tiananmen Square ...

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