BEIJING, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Liu Xiaobo, 53, a prominent supporter of democracy in China, was sentenced Friday in Beijing to 11 years in prison on subversion charges.
BEIJING, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- A Christmas Day verdict is expected in the trial of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobao which began Wednesday. If found guilty, as he will be, he could face up to 15 years imprisonment.
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Noted Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo pleaded innocent Wednesday to subversion charges at a Beijing court hearing.
BEIJING, June 24 (UPI) -- Chinese officials formally arrested dissident Liu Xiaobo after detaining him in a secret location near Beijing for more than six months, officials said.
BEIJING, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A former philosophy professor who has pressed for free speech rights in China is under house arrest in a secret location, a journalism advocacy group says.
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- More than 160 people, including three winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, have asked Chinese President Hu Jintao to free a dissident intellectual.
BEIJING, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Chinese literary critic was arrested hours before a human rights charter he helped draft appeared on the Internet, his friends say.
AWKA, Nigeria, March 20 (UPI) -- The Chinese Foreign Ministry promised Tuesday to cooperate with the government of Nigeria in efforts to free two kidnapped workers. The ministry did not identify the kidnapped workers or the Chinese company that employs them, the official Xinhua governmen
EAST WINDSOR, N.J., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Liu Binyan, a Chinese writer who spent years in exile after exposing corruption in the Communist Party, has died of colon cancer. He was 80.
HONG KONG, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Sources revealed Sunday that China has released three people imprisoned for criticizing the government over the Internet.
