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WTHR
November 30, 2017
BEIJING (AP) — A monitoring group says a Tibetan monk has set himself on fire in western China in an apparent protest against Chinese rule in the .... The American Civil Liberties Union, in a tweet, said, "Trump's prejudice against Muslims reveals itself at every turn — with today's tweets meant to gin up ...
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2017
Hillary Clinton spoke to the Chinese audience as if she were giving a presidential address. The former White House contender delivered a pointed, forceful attack Tuesday aimed at President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with whom the U.S. leader claims a unique chemistry. Her remarks ...
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2017
A court in China sentenced a man from Taiwan to five years in prison Tuesday over his advocacy of democracy, a verdict that could drive the rival ... Freedom House this year gave China a score of 15 out of 100 and Taiwan a 91 in its annual report on the state of political rights and civil liberties worldwide.
Buffalo News
November 27, 2017
Georg G. Iggers, an internationally renowned historian and civil rights advocate, died Sunday in Canterbury Woods, Amherst, of complications from a ... of the Twentieth Century as Scholars and Citizens,” which was published in German in 2002, in English in 2006 and in Czech, Chinese and Spanish ...
The Liberty Web English
November 22, 2017
Born in Shandong, China, Chen lost his eyesight when he was around 6 months old due to a fever. He engaged in legal activities against the local bureau on behalf of local villagers, and became more and more involved in civil rights activism. He was arrested in 2005, and later placed under house arrest in ...
9to5Mac
November 21, 2017
“We have been notified by the Ministry of Public Security that a number of voice over internet protocol apps do not comply with local law. Therefore these apps have been removed from the app store in China,” an Apple spokeswoman said Tuesday in an emailed statement responding to questions about ...
The Diplomat
November 17, 2017
We can see The Great Wall as an example of a new kind Chinese soft power effort that seeks to place China much more prominently in the public's eye. By learning ... China, unlike the U.S., will never be able to attract people through the ideals of freedom, political participation, and civil liberties. Similarly ...
Middletown Press
November 16, 2017
Rights group urges China to ban abusive gay 'conversion' ... 15, 2017, in a new report that the Chinese government ... more .... march's grand marshals this year included the American Civil Liberties Union, which was chosen ...
The New Civil Rights Movement
November 16, 2017
'Do You Think the Three UCLA Basketball Players Will Say Thank You President Trump?' President Trump Asks ...
Hong Kong Free Press
November 14, 2017
Chinese authorities have barred the teenage son of civil rights ... Patrick Poon, China researcher for Amnesty International, told HKFP that, ...
New York Times
November 14, 2017
4, 1950, shortly after China had entered the Korean War, Thomas J. Hudner ... “I was not going to leave him down there for the Chinese,” he later said. ... It doubled as a civil-rights milestone: Ensign Brown was the Navy's first ...
The New Civil Rights Movement
November 9, 2017
President Donald Trump became a willing partner to Chinese President Xi Jinping's authoritarian rule on Thursday. At a press event the ...
The Boston Globe
November 6, 2017
An Asian-American civil rights group said it is sending attorneys and ... following reports that Chinese-speaking voters were pressured to vote ...
News-Herald.com
November 2, 2017
Wong says China rise means trade trumps rights ... Beijing promised to let Hong Kong maintain wide autonomy and civil liberties after its 1997Â ...
MauiTime Weekly
November 2, 2017
As it is our custom in Hawaiʻi, the Hawaiʻi Coalition for Civil Rights would ... As you travel abroad to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and ...
The Times
November 1, 2017
Jail for booing China anthem in Hong Kong ... to three years if they show disrespect for the Chinese national anthem under planned laws. ... was guaranteed Western-style civil liberties after Britain handed it to China in 1997.
Quartz
November 1, 2017
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has joined a civil rights lawsuit that a Chinese-American academic is filing against the FBI. ... indicted Xi alleging that he had unlawfully transferred technology to entities in China.
ACLU (blog)
November 1, 2017
Not so for Professor Xiaoxing Xi, a Chinese-American physics professor ... filings, it cast him as a spy for China who shared sensitive technology. ... Today, the ACLU is joining a civil rights lawsuit brought by Professor Xi .... This is the website of the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation.
The Conversation CA
October 30, 2017
When the Chinese Communist Party's 19th Congress drew to a ... for civil liberties at a time when nations are trying engage China on the very ...
Quartz
October 24, 2017
China's Communist Party is all in on the power of technology ... In the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, young men and women dart ... which researches the internet and civil rights, put out a widely-publicized report ...
Albuquerque Journal
October 21, 2017
Both had grown up in Chinese-American communities in northwest ... Alliance, the nation's oldest Asian-American civil rights organization, ...
NPR
October 18, 2017
And starting today, China's communist party gathers to choose new ... activists and organizations advocating civil rights in a campaign aimed ... The exports crash he just mentioned, that was the heart of the Chinese economy.
ABC News
October 18, 2017
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin uses a magnifying glass to read ... of the economy in the 1990s while reining-in civil liberties, including ...
Phoenix New Times
October 13, 2017
After a Scottsdale-based company bought the Chinese Cultural Center site ... was based on alleged violations of religious freedom and civil rights. ... Center, including a roof built with rare materials brought in from China, and ...
Richland Source
October 6, 2017
COLUMBUS — Former Mansfield Police Chief Lawrence Harper (1926-2016) was inducted into Ohio's Civil Rights Hall of Fame during a ...
The Republic
September 25, 2017
China hosts Interpol meeting amid concerns over abuse ... police organization is also responsible for protecting civil liberties and the public's right to privacy. ... Chinese politics expert Willy Lam said China has been using its ...
Malay Mail Online
September 21, 2017
It was also disappointing to see the Pakatan Harapan (PH) Malay leadership's silence on the ban of the beer festival, with only five Chinese ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
September 21, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Thursday said the .... Trump also said China was imposing major banking sanctions, too, but there was no ... Several news outlets this month have reported Chinese steps to restrict ...
Radio Free Asia
December 31, 1999
Chinese Rights Activist Interrogated For 'Insulting National Leader' ... Editor Ding Lingjie of the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch website ... Ren said the authorities had violated China's criminal code during the investigation.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Bookseller Gui Minhai 'half free' after being detained in China for two years ... Earlier this week Chinese authorities claimed Gui had been released ... which has seen some of the country's leading civil rights attorneys spirited ...
The Hill (blog)
August 30, 2017
Those were the words of another early anti-fascist, China's Communist Party leader Mao Zedong. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor ofÃÂ ...
Cronkite News
August 30, 2017
The Chinese Cultural Center has a variety of stores and restaurants that cater ... with the first owner, China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp. ... Rita Center, where Cesar Chavez fasted during the civil rights struggle.
SupChina
August 30, 2017
Ho and a Chinese company named China General Nuclear Power were ... individuals facing civil rights violations and to promote due process.
SBS
August 30, 2017
The Chinese government has sounded a warning to Prime Minister Malcolm ... The China-Tibetan Cultural Exchange Delegation visited Canberra on ... among other means, strictly curtailing the civil rights of the TibetanÃÂ ...
AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
August 30, 2017
In 1924 the Hawes Act was enacted to prevent Hispanics and Chinese from obtaining firearms. It also modified California's concealed carryÃÂ ...
OZY
August 28, 2017
The Lum sisters were the daughters of Chinese immigrants, and the Rosedale ... to staff its fields with a growing group of hardworking immigrants from China. ... The case would prove a major hurdle for civil rights lawyers toÃÂ ...
New America Media
August 27, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO—Older Chinese immigrants in the Chicago area ... Efforts to promote civil rights and reduce discrimination may also be aÃÂ ...
CNN
August 27, 2017
... King successfully linked a black-led civil rights movement to the sacred ... from the Arab Spring to movements for democracy in China, Africa,ÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
August 27, 2017
Petitioning has always been a risky business on the mainland, so recent reforms are a step in the right direction. However, they should comeÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
August 26, 2017
... nemesis of Latinos, immigration advocates and civil rights groups. ... hurt over healing,” the American Civil Liberties Union said on Twitter.
The Tand D.com
August 26, 2017
That was followed by segregation laws, followed by the Civil Rights movement. ... A perfect example of this is the communist takeover of China.
KBZK Bozeman News
August 26, 2017
... King successfully linked a black-led civil rights movement to the sacred ... from the Arab Spring to movements for democracy in China, Africa,ÃÂ ...
China.org.cn
August 26, 2017
The Trump order was praised by social conservatives, while it drew criticism from civil rights groups. Follow China.org.cn on Twitter andÃÂ ...
VICE
August 25, 2017
A Chinese national was arrested in Los Angeles Wednesday, charged with distributing a rare piece of malware which has been linked to theÃÂ ...
Adweek
August 23, 2017
... to roll out globally in countries including China, the U.K., India, France, ... protect the civil liberties of highly vulnerable communities across theÃÂ ...
New Republic
August 23, 2017
And it stood up for the civil rights of minorities threatened by the policies of ... Two Chinese tourists were arrested earlier this month for performing a Nazi ... Like all civil liberties, it is shaped by the context in which it occurs.
The Diplomat
August 23, 2017
When the British handed the territory back to China in 1997, they hoped that the political and civil rights guaranteed in the Basic Law wouldÃÂ ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
August 22, 2017
... by Chinese officials of three former student leaders of a civil rights ... known for his fiery criticism of China and its policies of curtailing bothÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
August 22, 2017
The Chinese lawyer and civil rights advocate Jiang Tianyong has been ... subversion as he appeared in court in central China on Tuesday.
Democracy Now!
August 21, 2017
Dick Gregory, pioneering comedian and civil rights activist. He passed .... If you go to China today, who do you think is killing Chinese in China?
