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US Slams China on Human Rights Record

By Joseph SchumanMar 12th 2010 – 7:14AM
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(March 11) -- The United States has taken a fresh swing at China's human rights record at a time when the Obama administration is wooing Beijing for support against Iran, highlighting the tension between the idealistic side of American diplomacy and its pragmatic need for geopolitical bargaining. The State Department's...

GaoZhisheng News From the Web

  • 01/29/12 Activists say US must pressure China to free lawyer Source: Australia Network - ABC Asia Pacific Human Rights groups are planning to use Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington to campaign for the freedom of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
  • 01/20/12 New Year Grief For Lawyer's Family Source: RFA Radio Free Asia The exiled wife of jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng wrote an open letter to her husband this week, as hundreds of millions of people traveled home to be with their families ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.
  • 01/10/12 Chinese human rights lawyer jailed in remote Xinjiang... Source: NBC - KTUU 2 News - Anchorage AK The wife of an outspoken human rights lawyer jailed in China's remote Xinjiang region says her husband has been denied visitors.

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