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News » Uyghur Woman Found, Facing Abortion |
| Posted By maarip.org on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | HONG KONG—An ethnic Uyghur woman in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region who fled a local hospital to avoid a forced abortion has been found by police and taken under guard to a larger hospital, according to her husband.
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News » Obama's hard Gitmo choices |
| Posted By maarip.org on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Reports about the complexities that President-elect Obama will have to unknot in order to redeem his promise to close Guantanamo probably help explain why the Bush Administration's initial approach to the prisoners was to essentially lock them up and throw away the key.
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News » Rights Groups Claim Torture Pervasive In China |
| Posted By maarip.org on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Human-rights activists accuse China of hiding behind the country's so-called State Secrets Law for not complying with U.N. requests to provide information on the number of people tortured, detained, disappeared and summarily executed. The U.N. Committee against Torture is examining China's compliance with the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva.
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News » China Blames Dalai Lama for Lack of Tibet Progress |
| Posted By maarip.org on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | China says no progress was made at recent talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama. The Chinese government is accusing the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader of ultimately seeking independence of the Himalayan region. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing.
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News » Showdown ahead over 17 Uighur detainees |
| Posted By maarip.org on Friday, October 10, 2008 | The 17 men, all members of the oppressed Uighur ethnic minority in western China, have been held as enemy combatants by the US military for seven years, despite their insistence that they are not enemies of the US.
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News » Don't free the Uighurs |
| Posted By maarip.org on Friday, October 10, 2008 | The fate of 17 men held at Guantanamo since 2001 is still up in the air after a U.S. court rightly granted an appeal by the Justice Department staying a judicial order to free them today. The initial order not only gave U.S. residence to men trained in Afghanistan's terrorist camps, it raised fundamental constitutional questions about who has the power to admit foreigners to this country. The issues need to be resolved by a higher court.
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