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200,000 protest in Barcelona against Catalan separatists' trial
AFP, Published on 17/02/2019
» BARCELONA - Around 200,000 people marched through Barcelona on Saturday against the high-profile trial of Catalan separatist leaders that started this week, which they dismiss as a farce.
Detained Chinese human rights lawyer sentenced to 4 ½ years
Associated Press, Published on 28/01/2019
» BEIJING: Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison on the charge of subversion of state power Monday, more than three years after he was detained in a wide-ranging crackdown on the legal profession.
Chinese rights lawyer jailed for 'subversion'
AFP, Published on 28/01/2019
» BEIJING - Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion, sealing the fate of another attorney swept up in a 2015 crackdown.
Jailed Chinese activist's life in 'immediate' danger: rights groups
AFP, Published on 05/11/2018
» BEIJING - China's first "cyber-dissident" Huang Qi is in danger of dying under police custody if he does not receive medical treatment for a host of severe health conditions, human rights groups warned on Monday.
Chinese democracy activist gets 13 years for 'subversion'
AFP, Published on 11/07/2018
» BEIJING: A prominent Chinese political campaigner was sentenced to 13 years in jail on Wednesday, a court in central China said.
North Korea sued for 'killing' former detainee Otto Warmbier
AFP, Published on 27/04/2018
» WASHINGTON - The parents of Otto Warmbier, the US student jailed by North Korea before being sent home in a coma where he died days later, sued the Pyongyang regime Thursday for the alleged torture and murder of their son.
Vietnam jails 23 on charges of terrorism, subversion
Associated Press, Published on 28/12/2017
» HANOI: Vietnamese courts have handed down harsh prison sentences to 23 people after finding them guilty of terrorism and subversion, including in a bombing linked to an exiled group, state media reported on Thursday.
Concern mounts for detained Chinese activists
Reuters, Published on 13/09/2017
» GENEVA: Human rights activists called on China on Wednesday on stop detaining lawyers and critics, voicing concern for their health and fate in custody, after the death of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo attracted international attention in July.
Taiwan democracy activist pleads guilty in Chinese trial
Associated Press, Published on 11/09/2017
» YUEYANG, China -- A Taiwanese pro-democracy activist pleaded guilty Monday to subverting state power in China's first criminal prosecution of a nonprofit worker since Beijing passed a law tightening controls over foreign non-governmental organisations.
Liu's legacy will live on
News, Editorial, Published on 15/07/2017
» Even though the totalitarian rulers of China might have succeeded in preventing Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo from living longer, they will find it hard to prevent people in China and elsewhere from keeping the legacy of the human rights and democracy advocate alive.