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Chinese rights lawyer's wife gets US asylum: supporters
Bangkok :: Thailand | 2 days ago
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The United States has granted political asylum to the wife and children of jailed Chinese civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong who the family says is suffering abuse, supporters said Saturday. Guo, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for "running an...
Tags: United States, rights lawyer, Thailand, Zhang Qing, China, Bangkok, Hu Jintao, Zhang, Gao Zhisheng, Law of the People's Republic of China, Wen Jiabao
Human rights lawyer & journalist murder solved – report
Moscow :: Russia | 19 days ago
Credibility Lawyers Stanislav Markelov, along with Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova, were shot last January after leaving a press conference detailing crimes committed in the North Caucasus.
Tags: Moscow, human rights, Russian, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, rights lawyer, lawyer stanislav
China releases rights activist
Beijing :: China | 3 months ago
Credibility Chinese authorities on Sunday unexpectedly released on bail the well-known human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, a move seen by scholars and activists in Beijing as a rare victory for public activism. Mr. Xu, who was arrested outside his home on July 29, is...
Tags: Xu Zhiyong, China, human rights, rights lawyer
China releases reform activists
Beijing :: China | 3 months ago
Credibility China has released two prominent reform proponents in a twist following its recent crackdown on activists. Xu Zhiyong, a law scholar and organiser of one of the country’s largest legal aid groups, who had been accused of tax evasion, and Zhuang Lu, his...
Tags: China Daily, China Economic Review, Xu Zhiyong, tax evasion, Xinjiang, xinjiang riots, Urumqi, rights lawyer, Han Chinese
Chinese activist arrested for tax evasion
Beijing :: China | 3 months ago
Credibility August 18 – A pioneering Chinese legal rights advocate has been formally arrested for tax evasion almost three weeks after he was detained, one of his lawyers said on Tuesday, in the latest blow to the China’s activist community. Xu Zhiyong, co-founder...
Tags: Xu Zhiyong, China, human rights, rights lawyer, tax evasion, formally arrested
Chinese Authorities Detain Human Rights Lawyer
Beijing :: China | 3 months ago
Credibility Chinese authorities have detained prominent human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong. Xu was taken away by police this week as part of China's clampdown on dissent ahead of the politically sensitive 60th anniversary of the founding of Communist Party rule. Members...
Tags: human rights, rights lawyer, China, Communist Party, 60th anniversary
Chinese authorities detain civil rights activist
Beijing :: China | 3 months ago
Credibility Xu Zhiyong, a legal scholar and organiser of a legal help group that was shut down earlier this month, was taken away by a group of uniformed policemen and plainclothes officers from his residential compound early Wednesday, according to witnesses and...
Tags: China, rights lawyer, Xu Zhiyong, rights group
Iran asks West to close nuke file
Tehrān :: Iran | 4 months ago
Credibility Iran's new atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday that the West should close the Islamic republic's nuclear file and cease its hostility towards Tehran. “Legal and technical discussions about Iran's nuclear case have finished ... and there is...
Tags: Iran, human rights, Barack Obama, Tehran University, France, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rights lawyer
Africa: U.S. Abruptly Cancels New Flights
Nairobi :: Kenya | 5 months ago
Credibility Abruptly Cancels New Flights Katy Gabel 5 June 2009 Washington, DC — Kenyan government officials have reacted angrily to the abrupt cancellation this week of a new direct flight from Atlanta, Georgia in the United States to Nairobi. The U.S. carrier,...
Tags: rights lawyer
Zimbabwean human rights lawyer released on bail
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 6 months ago
Credibility A prominent Zimbabwean human rights lawyer is free on bail, a day after being arrested and accused of improperly arranging clients' bail. Alec Muchadehama accuses prosecutors of trying to "silence" him. His arrest was the latest in a series of detentions...
Tags: Zimbabwean, Mutambara Formation of Zimbabwe, human rights, unity government, rights lawyer, prime minister
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