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After suggestions that the torch relay be cut short were made earlier this week, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge denied there were any plans to do so. Beijing would be unlikely to agree in any case. But having seen the dissent and protest that's followed the torch's 85,000-mile "Journey of Harmony" to the Chinese capital, the Chinese government has to be wondering what this means for its hopes of a glorious Summer Olympics. With reporting by Lin Yang
...people during a day of events that was to wrap up with concerts in the evening. Activists in Paris, like their peers in London the previous day, turned an event intended to highlight China's growing political and economic prowess into a police-harnessed reflection of how China treats dissent...
...China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs, the Muslim ethnic group that speaks a Turkic language, over religious issues were reported by rights groups in late March. The Chinese press meanwhile has reported several recent clashes with separatist rebels...
...sentence was the latest in a string of recent convictions and imprisoning of activists apparently designed to stifle even the slightest sign of dissent ahead of the Games. Even China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited as the country's most powerful force for greater openness, has felt the heat. Thousands of websites have been shuttered while government controls and blocking of sites outside China has intensified significantly in recent months. As Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International put it in a report released on April 1, despite promises by both the International...
WILL THERE BE MORE REFORMS AHEAD? Probably, but mostly economic ones. These moves seem to emulate the Chinese model: Give people more access to hard currency and free markets while keeping a lock on political dissent. But Raśl has encouraged public debate on Cuba's system, and his recent agreement to allow in U.N. rights inspectors could prompt more...