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Documents 1 to 9 of 9 matching the search "(free china movement) And @sd >= 981221".

1. Headline: Wave of arrests in run-up to anniversary: activists

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Publication date (DDMMYY): 190599 Word count : 375
Summary : A seasonal round of arrests of dissidents has started ahead of the 10th anniversary of the June 4 massacre, human rights activists say.

2. Headline: Workers in drive for status

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Publication date (DDMMYY): 030499 Word count : 165
Summary : Workers in Tianjin yesterday announced the formation of an underground labour union dedicated to helping workers regain their place as the 'masters of the nation'.

3. Headline: Member of outlawed party held

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Publication date (DDMMYY): 260299 Word count : 198
Summary : A member of the banned China Democracy Party was detained yesterday as a US-based human rights group criticised the detention of two key activists days before a planned national congress.

4. Headline: Fears for health of dissident

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Publication date (DDMMYY): 190299 Word count : 212
Summary : A dissident jailed for 12 years for leaking a blacklist of exiled activists is in danger of dying in prison for lack of medical treatment, US-based lobbyists said yesterday.

5. Headline: Democracy party forms central body

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Publication date (DDMMYY): 070299 Word count : 189
Summary : THE China Democracy Party (CDP) yesterday announced the formation of a national committee to co-ordinate provincial branches as police detained one more activist.

6. Headline: DISSENT IN DISSIDENT CIRCLES

Byline : Simon Beck
Publication date (DDMMYY): 310199 Word count : 1890
Summary : ON June 1, 1982, Wang Xizhe stood defiantly before a judge, and not for the first time. Mr Wang, a Guangzhou factory worker, had spent four years of the previous decade in jail for challenging official thought during the waning years of the Cultural Revolution. He was released in 1979, during ...

7. Headline: Activist goes missing on eve of rights talks

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Publication date (DDMMYY): 120199 Word count : 431
Summary : Beijing intensified its crackdown on dissent yesterday as human rights talks were set to resume in Washington.

8. Headline: Support for UN protest

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Publication date (DDMMYY): 020199 Word count : 128
Summary : Dissidents on the mainland rallied behind hunger strikers on their fifth day of protest outside the United Nations building in New York, describing them as 'sacred heroes'.

9. Headline: Jail terms 'show US has failed'

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Publication date (DDMMYY): 231298 Word count : 288
Summary : Heavy prison terms given to three organisers of the banned China Democracy Party show Washington's policy of encouraging trade and diplomatic ties with China in the hope of prompting democratic reform has failed, critics of Beijing said.

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