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Chinese authorities have charged prominent rights activist Liu Xiaobo with "inciting subversion of state power" according to a Wednesday report by the state-run Xinhua news agency. Liu, who spent two...

Human rights and democracy advocates on Thursday called on the Chinese government to investigate the 1989 uprising in Beijing's Tiananmen Square , to release people imprisoned in connection with the uprising and human rights advocacy, to provide an...

The Chinese government on Friday detained a former soldier who has called for an investigation into the 1989 killings of pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square . Chinese human rights organization Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch (CRLW) [official website,...

Chinese authorities have released activist Hu Shigen after 16 years of imprisonment, the group Human Rights in China (HRIC) announced Tuesday. Hu had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for carrying out counterrevolutionary propaganda and...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday called on China to release the remaining imprisoned Tiananmen Square protesters as part of a wider effort to improve the nation's human rights image before the 2008 Olympic Games. HRW...

The Chinese government on Tuesday announced the release on parole of Hong Kong reporter Ching Cheong ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Ching, sentenced to five years in prison in 2006...

China has released a prisoner initially sentenced to death for burning debris during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests , the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights & Democracy reported Friday. Former construction worker Xi Haoliang,...

The Beijing Higher People's Court Friday turned down an appeal by Hong Kong reporter Ching Cheong against his August conviction for passing state secrets. The presiding judge deemed the trial court's ruling "accurate in application...

A Beijing court has denied an appeal hearing for Ching Cheong , who was convicted in August on charges of spying for Taiwan. Ching, the chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times , was sentenced...

Ching Cheong , chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times , was sentenced to five years in jail by a Chinese court on Thursday after being convicted on charges of selling state secrets and spying...