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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo
Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, who participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and was jailed in 2008 for advocating human rights.
10/08/2010 09:25 am -
Nobel Peace Prize 2010: How Obama award shapes this year's choice
After giving the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama last year, the Norwegian Peace Prize Committee may opt for a more conventional winner this Friday.
10/07/2010 02:59 pm -
The Vote 'Tea party'? 'Coffee party'? How about the Juicebox Party?
Beverage-based political movements are all the rage. 'Tea party' and 'coffee party' aside, here are some possible concoctions that could add to the national discourse.
03/12/2010 05:31 pm -
China dissident Liu Xiaobo loses appeal, US urges release
China was criticized by the US ambassador and other foreign diplomats after a Beijing court rejected the appeal of top Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo against his 11-year jail sentence, the severest in recent memory.
02/11/2010 08:32 am -
Gao Zhisheng: One year later, China still mum on missing lawyer
Gao Zhisheng, once praised by the Chinese government as a star lawyer, remains missing one year after police dragged him from his home. Rights groups are particularly worried about the treatment of the human rights lawyer.
02/04/2010 09:51 am -
Global Viewpoint China vs. America: Which government model will triumph?
If the 20th century was about the competition between democracy and totalitarianism, the 21st century pits the excesses of consumer democracy against capable governance with too little democratic accountability.
01/27/2010 12:47 pm -
When China Rules the World
Is China set to displace the US as the new global superpower?
01/11/2010 10:56 am -
Liu Xiaobo: Vaclav Havel confronts Chinese on sentencing of dissident
Former dissident and Czech president Vaclav Havel visited the Chinese Embassy in Prague this week in support of Liu Xiaobo, a Charter 08 author and democracy activist who received an 11-year prison sentence last month. Mr. Havel was a principal author of Charter 77, which targeted suppression in the Soviet East Bloc.
01/07/2010 02:44 pm -
Rising China shrugs off outside opinion
Foreign countries slammed China for its harsh sentencing of a top dissident on Christmas Day and its execution of a mentally ill Briton convicted of drug smuggling, but the juggernaut appears impervious to criticism.
01/06/2010 05:49 am -
Global Viewpoint If the US won't stand up to China, who will?
Beijing's harsh sentencing of democratic reformer Liu Xiaobo underscores China's contempt for the West and human rights – and the need for President Obama to confront this authoritarian arrogance.
01/04/2010 08:35 am -
Will the West's criticism of China for jailing top dissident backfire?
The Chrismas Day sentencing of literary critic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison has drawn unusually strong criticism from Western governments, but some experts say that may only result in China taking a harder line.
12/27/2009 01:11 pm -
Liu Xiaobo: China's top pro-democracy dissident goes on trial
The trial of leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo for 'state subversion' lasted just a few hours Wednesday as supporters and diplomats barred from attending thronged the courtroom in near-freezing cold. A verdict is expected Friday.
12/23/2009 06:19 am -
Leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo faces subversion case
Police have presented a subversion case against prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, raising the likelihood that he will face trial and then prison. The move furthers China's crackdown on democracy activists.
12/09/2009 12:00 am -
Opinion On its 60th anniversary, China is still crushing freedom
Congress should pass Resolution 151 to speak out on behalf of arrested dissident Liu Xiaobo.
10/01/2009 01:00 am -
Leading Chinese dissident charged with 'inciting subversion'
The arrest of writer Liu Xiaobo fits a pattern of increasingly harsh measures against independent voices, human rights groups say.
06/24/2009 01:00 am -
Tiananmen Anniversary: Memory of executed poet resonates
Lin Zhao, who was executed in 1968, challenged history and Mao.
05/01/2009 01:00 am -
Opinion The intensifying battle over Internet freedom
From China to Syria, repressive nations are cracking down hard on digital dissidents.
02/24/2009 12:00 am -
Charter 08 worries China
Police have detained activists behind the democracy petition, which has drawn diverse support.
01/07/2009 12:00 am -
The Monitor's View Beijing blinks at 'Charter '08'
When so many intellectuals sign a manifesto for democracy, the regime sweats.
12/26/2008 12:00 am -
Free expression grows in China (just don't talk politics)
Chinese intellectuals like Prof. Hu Xingdou relish their widening freedom to publish their opinions. But many topics remain taboo, and offenders are still subject to "reeducation through labor."
12/18/2008 12:00 am
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