China criticized a “woeful” human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijing's own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissidents.

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China hits back on U.S. human rights

Chen Guangfu, a brother of Chen Guangcheng, slipped through a security cordon and went to Beijing, said a lawyer who met him there.

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Brother of Chen Guangcheng Escapes Guarded Village

Arrived in Beijing early Thursday.

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Chen’s Brother Flees Village

The older brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng flees his closely-guarded village to seek legal help for his son in Beijing.

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Brother of blind activist flees

Beijing’s city government has decreed that no public toilet should have more than two flies flying around at any time.

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BEIJING — The plight of 28 Chinese fishermen, who were kidnapped, robbed, stripped and held for 13 days by North Koreans, has inflamed Chinese public opinion, with many Internet users taking to microblogging sites to question the Beijing government’s close relationship with its reclusive ally in Pyongyang. Read full article > >

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Kidnapped fishermen’s case angers Chinese public

Beijing authorities set new standards for public toilets, including a stipulation that they should contain no more than two flies.

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Beijing toilets in ‘two fly rule’

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York, after his escape to the US embassy in Beijing last month sparked a diplomatic crisis.

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China activist Chen lands in US

Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese human rights activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest last month, says he is at a Beijing airport about to board a flight for New York.

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Blind Chinese activist arrives in U.S.

Blind dissident leaves Beijing.

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Chen Takes Off For U.S.

BEIJING — Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who emerged at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and China, was at Beijing’s airport Saturday afternoon in the company of American diplomats and was about to leave for an uncertain new life in the United States. Read full article > >

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Chen Guangcheng leaves Beijing hospital, headed for U.S.

Al-Jazeera says it has been forced to close its English-language bureau in Beijing after China carries out a rare expulsion of a foreign journalist.

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China expels foreign journalist

China says he can leave the country and the Americans say they will welcome him. But he is still confined to a hospital in Beijing.

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VIDEO: Clinton leaves China without activist

BEIJING — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday embraced a statement from China that blind activist Chen Guangcheng could seek permission to study abroad, with her spokeswoman urging the Chinese government to “expeditiously process” his application for a passport and other documents. Read full article > >

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U.S. pushing China to allow Chen Guangcheng to study abroad

At close of meetings in Beijing.

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Hillary Presses Reform in N. Korea