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Holder Urges China to Free Nobel Winner

(Oct. 19) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is urging China to release jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and clean up its human rights record, a day before he heads to Beijing to meet with law enforcement officials there. Liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion, and China has called his Nobel...

Left and Right Celebrate This Year's Nobel Peace Prize Winner

(Oct. 8) -- Today, it was announced that Liu Xiaobo, one of China's most famous political prisoners, had won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Liu, an academic who has been active in the Chinese human rights movement for more than two decades, was arrested in 2008 for helping to author and circulate the Charter 08 petition,...

Who Will Win Nobel Peace Prize? 5 Contenders

(Oct. 7) -- 'Tis the season for speculative articles about who will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced Friday morning. This year there are a slew of names you've probably never heard of, plus one non-human entity that you most certainly have familiar -- some might say intimate -- knowledge of. The...

For Chinese Activist, 'The Truman Show' Begins

TAIPEI, Taiwan (Sept. 13) -- A famous Chinese rights activist, recently released after serving four years in jail, now faces constant scrutiny that human rights groups compares to a more sinister version of "The Truman Show." Chen Guangcheng, 38, was let out of jail Sept. 9 only to confront a regime of round-the-clock...

China Keeps a Close Eye on Exiled Activists

(March 9) -- The world got a rare glimpse at how China keeps tabs on exiled dissidents and activists Monday, when a political refugee living in Sweden was sentenced to 16 months in jail for spying on his fellow Uighurs for the Chinese state. According to press reports, 62-year-old Babur Maihesuti started gathering...

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05/07/12 Who will speak for world's dissidents, if not America? Source: Mail Tribune - Medford OR News that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family might be allowed to leave China for a university fellowship in the U.S. brought relief not only to Chen, but also to dissidents around the world.
10/14/10 Nobel Peace Prize a call for change in China Source: Taipei Times Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo () was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize â the first time the award went to a Chinese national.