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Activists Forced to Leave Hotels Ahead of Lin Zhao Memorial

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Activists gather to honor Lin Zhao in Suzhou, April 28, 2015.
Photo courtesy of an activist

Activists from across China converged on the eastern city of Suzhou on Tuesday to Continue reading

No. 14 Yu ZHANG: Case No. 14 (1960): Lin Zhao, Alone to the Execution Site

From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China

Lin Zhao1Lin Zhao (born Peng Lingzhao, December 16, 1931 – April 29, 1968), a university student, editor and writer, was sent to labor reform as a “student Rightist”and then arrested in 1960 as an “active counterrevolutionary” on the basis of poems she published in an underground magazine. After eight years of torture in prison, she was executed. Continue reading