Keeping dissidents locked up, blocking prominent intellectuals from leaving the country and blacking out news reports -- China is pulling out all the stops to keep news about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo out of public sight.
A Sri Lankan court sentenced a journalist Monday to serve 20 years in prison for articles that criticized the military, according to the Asian Human Rights Commission.
The wife of an imprisoned AIDS activist in China told CNN that Chinese police Saturday confined her to her home during the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Beijing.
China sentences dissident Hu Jia to prison for alleged subversion. CNN's Jaime Florcruz reports.
A Chinese human rights activist detained by police during the Olympic Games has returned to Beijing, a human rights group said Tuesday
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized the Chinese government Thursday for sentencing human rights activist Hu Jia to jail and said the United States will launch new human rights talks with Beijing.
Despite hopes that hosting the Games would prompt an easing on human rights in China, dissidents say they've seen no sign of a change
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