Human Rights in China

Kerry phones China over dissident’s nephew, can’t reach minister

4 May 2013

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tried calling Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss the imprisoned nephew of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng but Wang was not available, the State...

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Sydney honour for China organ transplant doctor prompts outcry

1 May 2013

Australian academics are calling for a Chinese surgeon accused of harvesting organs from executed prisoners to be stripped of a University of Sydney honorary professorship. Huang Jiefu, who was...

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Chinese turn to Hong Kong’s US Consulate for answers on human rights report

26 Apr 2013

Days after Beijing answered Washington’s critique of China’s human rights situation by issuing its own report on US human rights - an annual event in Sino-US relations - doubtful Chinese readers...

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Beijing urges US to condemn Xinjiang 'terror' attacks

26 Apr 2013

China urged the US to condemn what Beijing has called terrorist attacks in Xinjiang instead of lecturing the country on human rights.

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Rights activist sues Anhui police over illegal detention of daughter

26 Mar 2013

Zhang Lin, 49, who was previously jailed for leading student hunger strikes in Anhui in support of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement, lodged his case with provincial prosecutors on Friday...

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Will 2013 see progress in China's rights protection?

10 Dec 2012

International Human Rights Day is always a good time to take China's temperature. This year, the country is especially feverish.

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Lawyers sacked over poll drive, say activists

Several Beijing-based human rights defence lawyers have been fired by their law firms for campaigning for direct elections of officials in the Beijing Lawyers Association, according to an NGO...

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Rights group management crisis deepens

More Human Rights in China senior members quit amid claims it has strayed from original mission

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Mainland scholars founded organisation

The article headlined 'Papers riddled with doubt' (Sunday Morning Post, April 1) by Philip Cunningham, about the organisation Human Rights in China (HRIC), requires clarification.

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Enact legal reform, says rights group

A US-based human rights group will publish a report today urging the Chinese Government to implement legislation to better safeguard defendants' and lawyers' rights.

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Right reply

I write in reference to 'Human rights group denied UN status' (Sunday Morning Post, June 6). I understand that you have limited space.

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Clarification

In the South China Morning Post article headlined, 'Activists urge call for prison release', on June 23, you mentioned and quoted from the report 'From principle to pragmatism: can dialogue...

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