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By Wang Qian & Si Ming  27/05/2010

On Feb 9, Chinese activist and writer Tan Zuoren was sentenced to five
years in prison on charges of “inciting subversion of state power,”
allegedly for his online comments regarding the 1989 Tiananmen Square
Massacre.

By Jasper Fakkert  27/05/2010

A directive was adopted by a majority vote in the European Parliament
(EP) aimed at increasing the safety and quality of organ transplants in
the European Union (EU). It stresses that "member States should
intensify their cooperation under the auspices of Interpol and Europol
in order to address the problem of trafficking in organs more
effectively."

By Hon. David Kilgour, J.D. 19/05/2010

The following speech was given by Hon. David Kilgour, a former Secretary of State of Canada, on the same day of a media conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Subsequently, a large majority of Members of the European Parliament voted on May 19 to ask the European Commission to investigate the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

From NTDTV 19/05/2010

The Shanghai World Expo will pay 300 million Japanese yen (approximately US$3.2 million) to Japanese singer Maya Okamoto for plagiarizing her song, according to a report published on Japanese news websites last week.

By Matthew Robertson  30/04/2010

When tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners peacefully assembled
on April 25, 1999, in Beijing to ask the Chinese communist state to
stop its harassment of Falun Gong, they took the first steps in what
would become the largest and most sustained civil disobedience movement
in modern China. The practitioners also set in motion changes that are
shifting how Chinese society relates to the ruling Chinese Communist
Party (CCP), according to leading Chinese dissidents.

By Zhao Mojia   30/04/2010

On April 25, 11 years ago, 10,000 Chinese citizens, all Falun Gong
practitioners, spontaneously gathered in front of the State Bureau of
Letters and Calls to peacefully appeal for the right to pursue their
practice of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. The event, now
known as the “Falun Gong 4.25 Peaceful Appeal,” brought awareness of
Falun Gong to the world. It was also the beginning of a peaceful
protest that would span the next 11 years, carried out by the largest
group of people to ever have been persecuted in China.

By Lin Yi  30/04/2010

HONG KONG–Director Law Yuk Kai announced that the Hong Kong Human
Rights Monitor has requested the Hong Kong government to initiate an
investigation into the cancellation of Shen Yun Performing Arts in Hong
Kong and to submit a report to the United Nations.

By Matthew Robertson  10/04/2010

During a meeting with Associated Press reporters in a Beijing teahouse
on April 7, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng said he was giving up his
activism against the Chinese Communist Party in the hopes of being able
to contact, and possibly reunite with, his family in the future.

 By Yue Hongchen   01/04/2010

Usage of drugs

Shen Zhongyang, an authority in liver transplant in China, is the Executive Director of Tianjin First Center Hospital. He is also a committee member of the Eleventh CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) National Committee. Apart from his titles as Director of “Tianjin Oriental Organ Transplant Center” and Director of “Liver Transplant Institute of Armed Police General Hospital,” he was also awarded for Excellent Expert and Technician of Tianjin Health Department,  Tianjin Cross Century Young Talent, Excellent Individual of the Armed Force, Model Worker of Tianjin City, Top Ten Outstanding Youth of Tianjin, Tianjin Government Award, Outstanding Overseas Chinese Who Returned to China, National Outstanding Talent of Overseas Chinese Who Returned 

By Matthew Robertson   01/04/2010

A Chinese human rights lawyer, famous for standing up to the communist
authorities, is said to be relaxing in a Buddhist mountain retreat
rather than being in prison, as was previously thought.