PRESS RELEASE - Brussels, 6 August 2008 Human rights - Olympic Games Greens/EFA Group to award “medals for freedom” to political prisoners in China In the final days before the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Greens/EFA Group in...
Protesters try to turn spotlight from Games to human rights : As China celebrated sports and spectacle, protesters across the world Friday sought to yank the spotlight away from the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing and...
BEIJING (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Beijing on a fence-mending mission on Friday but still insisted on bringing up the tricky subject of human rights with Chinese leaders, a senior government official...
WINNERS and losers at the Beijing Olympics will include the presidents of the United Sates, France and China. Before he flew to Beijing to attend today's opening ceremony, President Bush chided his hosts about human rights but,...
By Jim Hoagland (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/08/08): Every aspect of life under totalitarian governments is political, from sports to culture to business. President Bush and other world leaders attending the opening ceremonies of...
Every aspect of life under totalitarian governments is political, from sports to culture to business. President Bush and other world leaders attending the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics this week should stop...
This is an upgraded version of the follow-up to the manifestations that took place in the European Parliament on 12.12.2007. (First version is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHK_E... ) This second version includes: 1....
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese dissident Huang Qi, who campaigns for the parents of children killed in the Sichuan earthquake, has been arrested for "illegal possession of state secrets," his wife said on Saturday. Qi was detained in...
Vrijdag 18 juli 2008 | Reporters Without Borders ] Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the co-president of the Greens Group in the European parliament, yesterday sent French President Nicolas Sarkozy a list of seven Chinese political prisoners...
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Council of the European Union for the next 6 months, presented this Thursday 10 July the objectives of the French Presidency to the members of the European Parliament, gathered in plenary...