Tag Archives: Chen Ziming

Under Cloud of Repression, Hundreds Turn Out to Mourn Tiananmen Square ‘Black Hand’

3:40 pm HKT Oct 27, 2014

 

PeopBN-CU458_Tianan_G_20140515005556le take photos during a vigil held to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, in front of a backdrop of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (back), in Hong Kong, on June 4, 2013 Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Hundreds gathered under polluted skies Continue reading

Chen Ziming – Veteran Dissident ‘Who Worried About China And Its People’

A commentary by Bao Tong

2014-10-24

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Wen Yongfen, the mother of jailed dissident Chen Ziming, holds a photo of her cancer-stricken son during a discrete protest in a Beijing park Oct 22, 1995.
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Chen Ziming was arrested in late 1989 for his involvement in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests Continue reading

Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing

7:30 pm HKT Oct 22, 2014

 

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People take photos during a vigil held to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, in front of a backdrop of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (back), in Hong Kong, on June 4, 2013. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

One of the two activists identified as the Continue reading