Published in The Wall Street Journal, Saturday, May 3, 2008, p. A9  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120977705104464315.html   read more

(Tokyo, April 30, 2008) – Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda should make human rights issues a priority in his historic meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Japan next week, Human Rights Watch said in a letter today. read more

April 30, 2008     Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda   Shusho Kantei   2-3-1, Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku   Tokyo 100-0014   Japan     Re: Your meeting with President Hu Jintao and Human Rights     Dear Prime Minister Fukuda, read more

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(New York, April 30, 2008) – The trials of 30 Tibetans accused of participating in violent protests on March 14 in Lhasa were not open and public, as claimed by the Chinese government, and did not meet minimum international standards of due process, Human Rights Watch said today. read more

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(Washington, DC, April 20, 2008) – As protests over China’s abuses of Tibetans intensify in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, police continue to arbitrarily arrest, detain, and mistreat record numbers of Tibetans in violation of their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, Human Rights Watch today. read more

(New York, April 17, 2008) – With fewer than four months remaining until the start of the Beijing Games, corporate sponsors of the Olympics risk lasting damage to their brands if they do not live up to their professed standards of corporate social responsibility by speaking out about the deteriorating human rights situation in China, Human Rights Watch said today. read more

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April 9, 2008     Re: Open letter from Human Rights Watch to heads of government and heads of state     VIA FACSIMILE     Your Excellency: read more

(San Francisco, April 8, 2008) – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom should use the Olympic torch’s passage through San Francisco on Wednesday, April 9 to defend the freedom of expression and assembly and to highlight ongoing abuses in China linked to the Beijing Games, Human Rights Watch said today. read more

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(Paris, April 7, 2008) – President Nicolas Sarkozy and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë should use the occasion of the Olympic Torch’s passage through Paris on Monday, April 7, to highlight ongoing abuses in China linked to the Beijing Games, Human Rights Watch said today. read more

(London, April 4, 2008) – In welcoming the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay outside 10 Downing Street, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sending the Chinese government exactly the wrong message on its ongoing crackdown in Tibet and on human rights advocates in China, Human Rights Watch said today. read more

(Washington, DC, April 3, 2008) – The jailing of China’s leading human rights activist, Hu Jia, reflects a further hardening of Beijing’s stance towards dissent in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Human Rights Watch said today. read more

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