Tag: Olympics human rights, Category: Human Rights

US Urges China to Release Eight Americans

From AFP: The United States on Saturday urged China to release immediately eight American nationals detained after pro-Tibet protests in Beijing during the Olympic Games. “We have asked for their immediate release and are continuing to follow their cases closely,” embassy spokeswoman Susan Stevenson told AFP. Beijing police said earlier this week that 10-day detention terms were handed

August 23, 2008 3:42 PM

Life On The Outside

On Monday, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos linked back to a 2007 article in the magazine by Jianying Zha. This describe

October 13, 2010 3:56 PM

Detentions Illustrate Limits of Free Speech in China

In the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing a year ago, there was much talk that playing host to the Games would force

July 30, 2009 12:57 PM

Leading Chinese Dissident Claims Freedom of Speech Worse than Before Olympics

The Telegraph interviews law professor He Weifang: He Weifang, a celebrated law professor and lead signatory to last yea

April 28, 2009 5:17 PM

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