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Human Rights Defender - Huang Qi (黄琦)
Lawyers Finally Allowed to See Arrested Quake Dissident
South China Morning Post, September 24, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=9e8c117ef109c110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD
Huang Qi (黄琦)'s lawyers Mo Shaoping (莫少平) and Ding Xikui (丁锡奎) were finally permitted to see him on September 23 after being denied access to Huang since he was detained. Huang has been in detention since June 10 and was formally arrested on July 18 on grounds of "illegally possessing state secrets." According to Mo, he and Ding were denied access to prosecution documents.
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Bilateral Ties
China Rejects US Criticism on Religious Freedom
Xinhua (via China Daily), September 23, 2008
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/23/content_7052689.htm
Children
China Issues New Rule to Better Protect Rights of Illegally Adopted Children
Xinhuanet, September 24, 2008
http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-09/24/content_10101549.htm
Corruption
Sichuan Hospital Head Jailed over Embezzlement of Quake Rescue Medicine
Xinhuanet, September 24, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/23/content_10098732.htm
Death Penalty
Man Sentenced to Death for Setting off Deadly Explosion
Shanghai Daily, September 23, 2008
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=374693
原国家民委办公厅副主任杜茂基等人贪污受贿获刑 (Former Deputy Director of the General Office of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission Du Maoqi Sentenced to Death for Corruption)
Xinhuanet, September 23, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2008-09/23/content_10097918.htm
Food Security
China Says Complaints about Milk Began in 2007
New York Times, September 24, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/world/asia/24milk.html
Got Milk? Chinese Crisis Creates a Market for Human Alternatives
Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122220872407868805.html
Melamine in Pesticides, Human Food Chain - Experts
Reuters, September 23, 2008
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HKG120043.htm
Police
北京访民马景雪被劳教 访民救星秦裕进京受阻 (Beijing Petitioner Ma Jingxue Sentenced to Reeducation-Through-Labor)
Radio Free Asia, September 23, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/beijing-09232008081700.html
河南上访维权人士刘学立被劳教 (Henan Petitioner Liu Xueli Sentenced to Reeducation-Through-Labor)
Radio Free Asia, September 23, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/liuxueli-09232008164311.html
Protests and Petitions
获释访民控诉当局的打压 (Petitioners Released from Detainment and House Arrest during Olympics Denounce Authorities' Repression)
Radio Free Asia, September 23, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fangmin-09232008081527.html
