2009年3月14日星期六

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Tibet stays silent on riot anniversary (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 01:55 PM PDT

A Tibetan monk prays in memory of Tibetan protesters killed on March 14 last year, at a rally and prayer service in New York March 14, 2009. Rioting broke out in Lhasa on March 14, 2008 after days of protests against Chinese rule by Buddhist monks, killing 19 people and sparking waves of protests across Tibetan areas. Exile groups say more than 200 people died in the crackdown. REUTERS/Jeff Zelevansky (UNITED STATES CONFLICT POLITICS)Reuters - China warned the West not to "put its fingers into" Tibet as the anniversary on Saturday of riots in Lhasa passed with heavy security to prevent any challenge to Beijing's rule.

Security tight for Tibetan riot anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 08:21 AM PDT

Tibetan monks shout slogans and carry the Tibetan national flag on March 14, 2008 in the town of Xiahe in Gansu Province. Armed police patrolled the streets of the Tibetan capital Lhasa on Saturday, residents said, amid tight security on the anniversary of last year's deadly anti-China riots.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - Armed police patrolled the streets of the Tibetan capital on Saturday, residents said, amid tight security on the anniversary of last year's anti-Chinese riots.

Tibet riot and its quelling remains suppressed (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 08:20 AM PDT

A Tibetan monk walks past a security checkpoint into the Tibetan quarters in Chengdu, southwestern China's Sichuan province Saturday, March 14 , 2009. A year ago, peaceful protests marking the abortive 1959 revolt against Chinese rule, spiraled out of control, resulting in a day of ethnic rioting in Lhasa on March 14, 2008 and widespread demonstrations elsewhere in Tibet and three surrounding provinces. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - A year after sometimes violent protests erupted in the small county seat of Aba and across Tibetan communities in the most sustained uprising against Chinese rule in decades, much remains unknown. A form of martial law and an information blockade imposed by China has stopped all but a trickle of accounts on how the protests were suppressed, while leaving some Tibetans more resentful of Chinese rule.

Iran, China sign $3.2 billion gas deal (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 07:40 AM PDT

AP - State TV says Iran and China have signed a $3.2 billion gas deal to produce more than 10 tons of liquid natural gas.

Rights group: China frees 2 jailed intellectuals (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 01:29 AM PDT

AP - China released two men after they completed eight-year prison terms for being part of a group that posted essays online advocating political reform, a human rights group said.

Police chief jailed over China nightclub fire (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:02 AM PDT

Bystanders watch from behind a police line outside the gutted Dance King nightclub in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in September 2008 the morning after a blaze and subsequent stampede left some 44 people dead. A corrupt police chief has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for his role in a fire at a southern Chinese nightclub that killed 44 people, state media reported Saturday.(AFP/File/Ted Aljibe)AFP - A corrupt police chief has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for his role in a fire at a southern Chinese nightclub that killed 44 people, state media reported Saturday.

China frees two jailed dissidents: rights groups (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 09:57 PM PDT

Video screens tell the stories of political prisoners at the Laogai Museum, the first museum in the US to address human rights in China, in 2008, in Washington, DC. Two Chinese dissidents have been freed after serving eight-year jail sentences for subverting the state, according to rights groups.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AFP - Two Chinese dissidents have been freed after serving eight-year jail sentences for subverting the state, rights groups said.

Dissident lawyer's family flees China to US asylum (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 06:08 PM PDT

in this Feb. 24, 2006 file photo, Gao Zhisheng gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing. The wife of Gao Zhisheng, a crusading civil rights lawyer, said Friday that she and their two children are now in the United States after paying human traffickers to smuggle them out of China to escape harassment by security agents. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - Geng He said she put herself and her two children in the hands of human traffickers rather than stay in China, where her husband's relentless activism had made them the targets of endless police harassment.

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