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Tiananmen Exiles-Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China

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ROWENA XIAOQING HE 06.25.14

In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began Continue reading →

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China calls U.S. bid to name street for Nobel peace laureate a ‘farce’

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BEIJING Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:32am EDT


Workers prepare the Nobel Peace Prize laureate exhibition ”I Have No Enemies” for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo December 9, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

(Reuters) – China on Wednesday dismissed as a “farce” Continue reading →

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Hong Kong Chief Hits Back After Chinese Media Attacks Poll

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2014-06-24


Hong Kong Chief Executive C.Y. Leung (R) meets with Hong Kong businessmen in Beijing, April 11, 2012.
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Hong Kong’s chief executive C.Y. Leung on Tuesday hit back at Continue reading →

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US push to rename Chinese embassy street after dissident

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25 June 2014 Last updated at 12:02 ET Share this pagePrint


A picture of Liu Xiaobo seen inside the Nobel Peace Center on the day of The Nobel Peace Prize Continue reading →

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Hong Kong’s democracy ‘referendum’ — What you should know

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By Wilfred Chan and Euan McKirdy, CNN

June 25, 2014 — Updated 0111 GMT (0911 HKT)


Hong Kong’s democratic referendum
Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 738,000 Hong Kongers Continue reading →

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Independence of Lawyers: The Role of Justice Bureaus and Lawyers’ Associations

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China’s more than 250,000 lawyers do not yet benefit from many of the fundamental protections outlined in the UN Basic Principles for Lawyers. Moreover, the growing body of rights defense lawyers Continue reading →

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House committee votes to give Chinese Embassy new address: No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza

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BY MICHAEL LARIS June 24 at 12:54 PM

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to rename the stretch of road in front of the Chinese Embassy “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” a symbolic nod to the Nobel Prize-winning dissident and a slap at the human rights record of officials in Beijing. Continue reading →

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Sunflower Leaders Denied Entry into Hong Kong

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Lin Fei-fan, Chen Wei-ting and Huang Kuo-chang have seen their applications to visit Hong Kong to support activists there denied by the authorities


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By J. Michael Cole June 25, 2014

As the crisis in Hong Kong intensifies amid Occupy Central Continue reading →

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