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U.S. says China missed rights opportunity at Olympics - 8/27/2008
Reuters
China missed an opportunity to show progress on human rights and religious freedom during the Olympic Games, the White House said on Monday, after eight Americans were deported for protesting.
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China, human rights activist subjected to forced labor - 8/26/2008
AsiaNews.it
Hu Jia, detained in Chinese prison under the accusation of "subversion against the state", may not receive medical care or communicate with his family: the guards confiscate his letters and books, and will not permit him to speak with his relatives or his lawyer. Restrictions are also in place against his wife.
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China's Big Lie - 8/22/2008
Geoffrey Clarfield, National Post
Is it really an honour, or are Canadian athletes, their trainers and supporters fooling themselves and unwittingly giving credibility to one of the world's most cruel and powerful regimes, as was the case during the 1936 Olympics? If they had asked Harry Wu, they might have thought twice.
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Protest Application Brings Labor-Camp Threat, Woman Says - 8/21/2008
Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post Foreign Service
BEIJING, Aug. 20 -- Two elderly women could face a year of "reeducation through labor" because they applied for permits to demonstrate during the Olympics, according to one of the would-be protesters.
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Fears of Xinjiang Repression After Olympics - 8/20/2008
William Foreman, ABC News
As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades.
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Attention on Olympics, Dissident Goes Missing in China - 8/19/2008
KRISTIN JONES, ABC News
As the headlines from China focus on Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin, other stories have gone largely uncovered such as the disappearance of a human rights advocate, Zeng Jinyan and her baby daughter.
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China bends over backward during the Olympics to conceal the ugly truth - 8/18/2008
Tienchi Martin-Liao, New York Daily
Beijing residents are used to seeing a yawning gap between the reality they know and the reality the government wants to create. And they are used to the government's version - the government's vision - prevailing.
Tienchi Martin-Liao is Director of the Laogai Research Foundation
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Legislation To Regulate Dead Body Exhibits Moves On To The Governor - 8/18/2008
Office of California Assembly Member Fiona Ma
AB 1519 will prohibit the commercial display of human remains in California beginning on January 1, 2010 unless exhibitors of human remains file an affidavit to the Attorney General, detailing the bodies and specimens on display, and attesting that the bodies received have provided full informed consent.
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