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Human Rights
Dissidents Thwarted in Opening Human Rights Consultancy
HRIC Press Release, April 21, 2005
Human Rights in China (HRIC) A citizens’ rights center established by political activists Liu Jingsheng and Li Weiping has been closed by the police in Beijing. Liu and Li were warned to close down the organization as soon as possible, an suggestion passed on from the “upper levels” of the government.
http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/press?revision%5fid=
21731&item%5fid=21718
Labour-Protests
Police Free Leaders of China Strike
AP via YahooNews.com, April 22, 2005
According to the China Labour Bulletin, 20 labour activists, who had been detailed for several months after mobilising 7,000 female textile workers for a protest in Xianyang, was released by the police last week.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=
516&e=9&u=/ap/20050421/ap_on_re_as/china_labor_crackd
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Environment
Inspection teams to monitor Guangzhou sulfur output
SCMP, April 22, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZVD6WOY6E.html
Gender Issues
From marital ethics to reproductive ethics
从婚姻道德到生育道德
China Youth Daily, April 22, 2005
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-04/22/content_1073377.htm
CCP smacks of hypocrisy
Japan Times, April 22, 2005
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?eo20050422a1.htm
Human Rights / UN
China's Premier Wen says working to ratify UN human rights convention
AFP via YahooNews.com, April 21, 2005
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/050421/323/fgs90.html
Labour – Industrial accidents
China Factory Explosion Leaves 19 Missing
AP via YahooNews.com, April 22, 2005
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=
731&e=4&u=/ap/20050422/ap_on_re_as/china_factory_explo
sion
Labour- Protests and petitions
Shenzhen workers on strike against suppression of setting up labour union by Japanese funded company
深圳日资企业工人罢工要成立工会
Voice of America, April 21, 2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-04-21-voa45.cfm
Law
Human rights violations by government officials can not be tolerated, says High Court
高检院:国家公务人员侵犯人权犯罪不能一查了之
EastDay.com, April 22, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node58153/userobject1ai1038347.html
Criminal with mental illnesses stuck in detention centre as prisons refuse to accept the case
一个精神病人的“服刑”之路
China Youth Daily, April 22, 2005
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-04/22/content_1073227.htm
Law – Legal reform
Regulation on the adoption of evidence in local courts important to guarantee enforcement of Criminal Procedure Law
地方的刑事证据规范如何保证刑事诉讼法的执行
Legal Daily, April 22, 2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2005-04/22/content_207
746.htm
Poverty – Rural poverty
Rural population in abject poverty falls by 2.9 million
Xinhuanet.com, April 21, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/21/content_28
60481.htm
Protests and Petitions
People urged to shun unauthorized marches
Xinhuanet.com, April 21, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/21/content_286
2801.htm
China vow to ban people to participate in anti-Japan protests
中國明令不准國民參與反日示威
BBC, April 21, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4460000/new
sid_4469800/4469805.stm
UN
Chinese Activist Says He was Expelled from U.N. Meeting After Chinese Complains
Radio Free Asia, April 20, 2005
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/politics/2005/04/20/china
_rights/
Xinjiang
Xinjiang: On the new frontier
CNN.com, April 22, 2005
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/20/eyeon
china.xinjiang/
Hong Kong – Basic Law
Agreement over Basic Law row 'wishful thinking'
SCMP, April 22, 2005
http://hongkong.scmp.com/hknews/ZZZUXFVOY6E.html
