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China confirms forced abortion case after uproar
Chinese authorities confirmed Thursday that a woman was forced to abort seven months into her pregnancy, several days after her plight came to light when images of her baby’s corpse were posted online. Rights groups have blamed authorities in north China’s Shaanxi province for forcing Feng Jianmei to abort her…
Asian authorities warn of risks in so-called ‘human flesh pills’
Some people believe that they contain the dried flesh of dead babies or aborted fetuses, others say just placental tissue. Chinese authorities claim they don’t exist, but so-called “human flesh pills” were first seized by authorities in South Korea last August. According to CNN, some 35 cases (approximately 17,000 pills)…
US says ready to help blind Chinese activist
The United States said Thursday it was ready to help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng if he sought exile, after the blind activist expressed fears for his safety and pleaded to be taken abroad. The fate of the campaigning lawyer-dissident, who escaped from house arrest and spent six days at the US embassy in…
China frees cyber dissident after 8 years in jail
Chinese authorities have freed a former newspaper reporter and cyber dissident who was jailed for subversion in 2003, a human rights group said Wednesday. Huang Jinqiu was released from prison in October after serving eight years of a 12-year sentence, US-based Human Rights in Chinasaid in a statement. Huang, who worked as a journalist for…
Chinese bloggers question official’s suicide
BEIJING — Tens of thousands of Internet users have gone online to question reports in China’s state-run media saying an anti-corruption official found dead with 11 stab marks to his body had taken his own life. The body of Xie Yexin, who worked as an anti-corruption official in the central…
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