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.
LONDON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A Chinese trader on the London Metals Exchange who is rumored to have made a bad bet on copper futures has disappeared.
BEIJING, March 15 (UPI) -- A spokesman from the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that citizens have the right to provide religious education for their children.
BEIJING, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao Tuesday urged the United States to stop developing its military relations with Taiwan.
HONG KONG, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Sources revealed Sunday that China has released three people imprisoned for criticizing the government over the Internet.
