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“ The Chinese government has refused every external request for a real accounting of the detention, arrest and sentencing of those involved with the Tibetan protests ”
Rights group faults China on Tibet
United Press International
“ The government's national security concerns do not exempt it from its obligation to respect fundamental rights and freedoms and offer equal status before the law to all its citizens, whatever their ethnicity ”
Rights group faults China on Tibet
United Press International
“ Secretary Clinton's remarks point to a diplomatic strategy that has worked well for the Chinese government -- segregating human rights issues into a dead-end 'dialogue of the deaf,' ”
Clinton downplays China rights concerns
United Press International
“ We are intensely fearful for Gao Zhisheng's safety at this time, given the security authorities' long history of abusing him and his family ”
Human rights activist Gao Zhisheng missing
United Press International
“ Hu Jia was incarcerated for doing nothing more than exercising rights expressly guaranteed by China's constitution ”
Group seeks release of Chinese dissident
United Press International
“ Instead of arresting peaceful protesters, why don't these governments meet with them and attempt to address their grievances? ”
HRW asks for release of Tibetans
United Press International
“ What is needed to build (the population's) confidence in the military is for people all the way up the chain of command to be prosecuted for their involvement in these killings ”
Analysis: U.S. military aid to Philippines
United Press International
“ Like the dozens of other peaceful dissidents who have been jailed, Tran Khai Thanh Thuy should never have been arrested in the first place ”
Report: Vietnam releases rights activist
United Press International
“ The Chinese government is already failing to deliver on its pledge to fully lift restrictions for foreign journalists ahead of the Beijing Games ”
HRW: China media freedom under assault
United Press International
“ There is no justification for denying to Chinese journalists even the limited freedoms that their foreign colleagues enjoy ”
HRW: China media freedom under assault
United Press International
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