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Jailed Chinese journalist wins Lin Zhao Freedom Award
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): A US-based rights group has awarded journalist Zhang Zhan, who was jailed by Chinese authorities for reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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China: Social media users slam state media over failure to report sex abus
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 8 (ANI): Social media users in China have criticised the state-owned media, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), over its failure to report on a jailed Shanghai citizen who raped women and held them captive in a brothel for the rich people.
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Hong Kong activist set to challenge conviction under national security law
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, November 27 (ANI): Hong Kong activist Tong Ying Kit, who was the first person to be jailed under the Beijing-imposed national security law, is set to challenge his conviction and sentence next March.
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Jailed Chinese activist's ailing mother fears she will never see son again
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 27 (ANI): The terminally ill mother of jailed Chinese rights activist Huang Qi has appealed to Sichuan authorities to allow one last meeting with her son as she nears the end of her life.
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UN experts urge China to release ill journalist jailed for COVID reporting
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 22 (ANI): UN experts on Monday urged China to release journalist Zhang Zhan, who was jailed for reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic, "as her health is deteriorating rapidly and her life is in danger."
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JP Nadda on U'khand visit meets former bar association district president,
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Rudrapur (Uttarakhand) [India], November 16 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda on Tuesday met the former president of the district bar association, Subhash Chhabra who was imprisoned during the Emergency at his residence in Rudrapur district of Uttarakhand.
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Hong Kong: Authorities jail activist 'Captain America 2.0' under Beijing-i
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, November 13 (ANI): Authorities have jailed a pro-democratic activist nicknamed "Captain America 2.0" in Hong Kong for chanting slogans that are deemed 'separatist' under the Beijing-imposed national security law in the city.
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Conviction of US journalist symbolic of media repression in Myanmar: UN ri
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], November 13 (ANI): UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has urged authorities in Myanmar to immediately release all journalists who have been jailed for practising their profession.
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Reporters Without Borders nominate jailed Chinese journalist for press fr
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Paris [France], November 5 (ANI): Paris-based non-governmental organisation, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has nominated jailed Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan for the 2021 RSF Press Freedom Awards.
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Jailed journalist 'close to death' in Chinese prison
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 3 (ANI): Jailed Chinese citizen journalist and former lawyer Zhang Zhan is close to death following months of intermittent hunger strikes in protest at her jailing, a Washington based news service has learned.
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China: Jailed human rights lawyer's wife sets up legal consultancy to help
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China] November 1 (ANI): Jailed Human Rights lawyer Yu Wensheng's wife has set up a legal consultancy to assist people struggling with the justice system in China.
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Senior NLD leader jailed for 20 years for criticizing Myanmar coup
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], October 31 (ANI): Myanmar authorities on Friday jailed an Octogenarian opposition leader for criticizing the coup that ousted the democratically elected government in the country.
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