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Sophie Richardson
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[-said]: At the end of the day, many of the same laws and processes that protect human rights are the same ones that protect better economic relations,
news 10-NOV-11
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[ said]: There are very few people, particularly at senior levels of the government, that are in a mood to experiment or take risks or propose innovative new strategies for responding to dissent in a systematic way,
thestar 10-NOV-11
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[ added]: I fear EU officials will be that much more reticent about criticising the Chinese government over anything,
guardian 03-NOV-11
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[ said]: lawfully,
cnn 03-SEP-11
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[-said]: Legalizing a regime of secret detentions would poison the judicial system and seriously set back hopes of moving toward the rule of law,
HumanRightsWatch 02-SEP-11
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[ said]: The Chinese government’s proposed legislation would give the security apparatus free rein to carry out ‘disappearances’ lawfully,
HumanRightsWatch 02-SEP-11
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[-said]: Instead of abandoning the practice of enforced disappearances, the Chinese government is attempting to legalize it,
HumanRightsWatch 02-SEP-11
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[ responds]: Tut-tutting only gets you so far in this world,
irrawaddy 30-AUG-11
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[ said]: Vice President Biden expressed frank concerns over arrests and disappearances to Chinese officials in Washington in May, putting human rights where they belong in a high-level interaction,
HumanRightsWatch 12-AUG-11
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[-said]: Vice President Biden needs to make clear to his Chinese hosts that their intensified repression undermines the development of a stable, mutually beneficial diplomatic and economic bilateral relationship between the US and China, and reiterate that it also compromises longer-term stability in China,
HumanRightsWatch 12-AUG-11
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[-said]: The new Thai government should demonstrate that it will uphold its obligations to the highest degree, not casually disregard them,
HumanRightsWatch 11-AUG-11
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[ said]: The Chinese government has again reached beyond its borders to force another Uighur into a black hole,
HumanRightsWatch 11-AUG-11
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[-said]: At a time when freedom of speech and assembly and the rights of a free press are under serious attack by Chinese security forces just over the border, it's essential for the Hong Kong government to demonstrate a strong commitment to the defense of those same rights and freedoms in Hong Kong,
HumanRightsWatch 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: If Donald Tsang and the Hong Kong government turn a blind eye to alleged police abuses, they risk Hong Kong's reputation as a bastion for civil liberties,
HumanRightsWatch 12-JUL-11
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[ said]: The Hong Kong government needs to adopt a zero tolerance policy against the abuse of the freedoms of protesters and journalists who seek only to exercise their legal rights,
HumanRightsWatch 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: International pressure apparently prodded the Chinese government to conclude that the cost/benefit ratio of continuing to detain Ai Weiwei wasn't worth it,
HumanRightsWatch 23-JUN-11
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[ said]: Hu Jia should never have been imprisoned in the first place,
HumanRightsWatch 23-JUN-11
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[-said]: Disappearing or restricting government critics - and their family members - after an unwarranted prison term is piling one serious abuse on top of another,
HumanRightsWatch 23-JUN-11
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[-said]: For Chinese human rights activists, prison is only one way of losing one's freedom,
HumanRightsWatch 23-JUN-11
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[-said]: The Chinese government's decision to arrest Ai Weiwei was political, and so is his release,
cnn 23-JUN-11
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[-said]: If the EU's human rights dialogue with China is not making a positive difference to Chinese activists and ordinary citizens, it has lost its utility - and legitimacy,
HumanRightsWatch 16-JUN-11
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[ said]: From the Chinese government's perspective, these human rights dialogues are a means to limit and isolate any discussion about its dismal human rights record at relatively low diplomatic levels,
HumanRightsWatch 16-JUN-11
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[-said]: The recent crackdown speaks volumes for the Chinese government's contempt for rule of law, and the heavy-handed responses to protests in Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and elsewhere show the government is no more willing than it was two decades ago to peacefully resolve popular discontent,
nieuwsbank 02-JUN-11
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[-said]: The recent crackdown speaks volumes for the Chinese government?s contempt for rule of law, and the heavy-handed responses to protests in Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and elsewhere show the government is no more willing than it was two decades ago to peacefully resolve popular discontent,
news 02-JUN-11
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[ said]: The Chinese government's efforts to silence perceived sources of `instability' since mid-February are eerily reminiscent of the campaign of denial about the Tiananmen massacre,
nieuwsbank 02-JUN-11
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[ said]: The Chinese government's efforts to silence perceived sources of ‘instability' since mid-February are eerily reminiscent of the campaign of denial about the Tiananmen massacre,
HumanRightsWatch 02-JUN-11
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[-said]: The recent crackdown speaks volumes for the Chinese government’s contempt for rule of law, and the heavy-handed responses to protests in Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and elsewhere show the government is no more willing than it was two decades ago to peacefully resolve popular discontent,
timesofoman 02-JUN-11
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[ said]: The Chinese government takes careful note of which US officials and agencies do and don't talk about human rights, so showing commitment requires across-the-board coordination,
HumanRightsWatch 07-MAY-11
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[ said]: Secretary Clinton has said that every day is human rights day at the State Department, so there's no reason the Strategic and Economic Dialogue can't also be a human rights dialogue,
HumanRightsWatch 07-MAY-11
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[ said]: One of our concerns about the human rights dialogues is that they tend to ghettoize human rights issues and reinforce the idea that they are and can and should be dealt with separate from other issues,
news 28-APR-11
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[ said]: This is the first time that the human rights dialogue will be held in an environment this bad,
reuters 27-APR-11
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[ said]: In signing the Convention against Enforced Disappearance, the Indonesian government indicated not only a willingness to grapple with serious past abuses, but also to support international human rights mechanisms,
HumanRightsWatch 27-APR-11
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[-said]: The convention is meant to protect ‘all persons' from enforced disappearance, so there is no reason Indonesian leaders can't raise the issue with Premier Wen,
HumanRightsWatch 27-APR-11
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[ said]: The use of violence against peaceful, unarmed demonstrators including those surrounding the Kirti monastery would be both unjustifiable and completely unlawful,
asiatimes 27-APR-11
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[ said]: Prime Minister Gillard has spoken up about Australia's concerns from Canberra; now the test is whether she will do so publicly in Beijing,
nieuwsbank 23-APR-11
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[ said]: Prime Minister Gillard should publicly express the international community's dismay at the recent spike in repression in China since February,
nieuwsbank 23-APR-11
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[ said]: Prime Minister Gillard has spoken up about Australia’s concerns from Canberra; now the test is whether she will do so publicly in Beijing,
timesofoman 23-APR-11
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[ said]: The Chinese government has an obligation to protect its citizens' rights of public expression, assembly, and religious belief as guaranteed under China's laws and constitution,
HumanRightsWatch 15-APR-11
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[ said]: It is vital that Chinese security forces respect the safety of all concerned, use the minimum force needed to keep public order, and fully respect both the monks and bystanders' right to freely practice religion, assemble, and peacefully carry out protests,
HumanRightsWatch 15-APR-11
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[ said]: The Chinese authorities appear to be laying the ground for Ai Weiwei's formal arrest,
HumanRightsWatch 06-APR-11
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[ said]: The arrest of Ai Weiwei reflects a new escalation in the current and already severe crackdown,
HumanRightsWatch 06-APR-11
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[ said]: Ai Weiwei is a test case for the international community,
HumanRightsWatch 06-APR-11
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[-said]: The Chinese government's refusal to account for people known to be in custody should immediately and publicly be challenged in all major diplomatic forums, including the UN Human Rights Council,
HumanRightsWatch 31-MAR-11
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[ said]: The current crackdown on activists in China is the most severe in a decade,
HumanRightsWatch 31-MAR-11
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[-said]: These meetings risk becoming hollow, opaque affairs, with no participation from human rights defenders, no public scrutiny and an inherent political incentive from both sides to present the outcome of the human rights dialogues as ‘progress,'
HumanRightsWatch 31-MAR-11
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[ said]: It's unacceptable that the police attack foreign media seeking to cover a public event,
HumanRightsWatch 03-MAR-11
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[ said]: The police response to the foreign journalists was a flashback to the bad old days, and that the offensive to shut down the press took place in downtown Beijing is alarming,
HumanRightsWatch 03-MAR-11
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[-said]: The Chinese government should enforce its existing rules on foreign media freedom rather than flout them,
HumanRightsWatch 03-MAR-11
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[ said]: Citizens' demands for the state to respect its own laws are getting louder,
nieuwsbank 23-FEB-11
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[ said]: - it is a life in limbo outside the protection of the law,
nieuwsbank 23-FEB-11
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[ said]: The Communist Party wants to silence any criticism or unrest,
MailGuardian 25-JAN-11
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[ said]: It's good to hear him make such an acknowledgment, but they are no more than words until we see serious changes in policy and practice,
newschannel5 20-JAN-11
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[ said]: It is crucial that the Obama administration publicly demonstrate during this visit - which should not be subject to the same constraints as last year's meeting in China - its concerns about freedom of expression, the rule of law, and about political prisoners,
HumanRightsWatch 13-JAN-11
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[ said]: Ten years ago, it was not particularly difficult to get 25 members of Congress to sign a letter demanding the release of a particular individual. It’s much harder to do now because members of Congress are concerned about whether businesses from their districts are still going to be able to invest in China, whether they are going to make any money, whether the Chinese government will refuse to be more cooperative on sanctions on Iran or North Korea if they sign that letter,
voanews 13-JAN-11
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[-said]: sure some aspects of life in China are certainly better than they were 10, 20, 30 years ago, but there are still red lines people cannot cross,
voanews 13-JAN-11
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[-said]: China needs a credible national human rights action plan that is designed and implemented to improve its human rights performance, not deflect criticism,
HumanRightsWatch 11-JAN-11
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[ says]: more of a public relations exercise than a meaningful tool for protecting and promoting human rights
csmonitor 11-JAN-11
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[-said]: The Chinese government's failure to meaningfully deliver on the National Human Rights Action Plan's key objectives will only deepen doubts about its willingness to respect international standards as its global influence grows,
earthtimes 11-JAN-11
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[ said]: If this plan had been vigorously pursued - and had not been accompanied by a slew of government-tolerated abuses - it could have marked a real change in the Chinese government's human rights performance,
HumanRightsWatch 11-JAN-11
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[ said]: The Communist party wants to silence any criticism or unrest before its most important meeting,
guardian 10-JAN-11
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[ said]: The kind of progress that we have seen in China, infrastructure, economic, and to some extent social freedom, many of these are remarkable, and they are a clear choice on the part of the Chinese government,
voanews 20-DEC-10
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[-said]: Both China and Cambodia should be held accountable for their flagrant disregard of their obligations under international law,
HumanRightsWatch 18-DEC-10
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[-said]: The violence of July 2009 was horrific and unjustifiable,
HumanRightsWatch 18-DEC-10
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[ said]: Uighurs deported to China are at clear risk of torture,
HumanRightsWatch 18-DEC-10
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[ said]: Awarding the prize to Liu Xiaobo has had an electrifying effect on the human rights community,
independent 10-DEC-10
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[ said]: Awarding the prize to Liu Xiaobo has had quite an electrifying effective on the human rights community,
irish 10-DEC-10
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