As our bureau chief leaves China, he reflects on the crushing of the protests he witnessed 25 years ago, and what has transpired since
May 31st 2014 | BEIJING |
EVEN after the Chinese army moved into Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3rd 1989, and cleared it of the detritus left by the students who had occupied it for most of the previous seven weeks, it was several days before Continue reading
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With the 25th anniversary of the 1989 June 4th crackdown now only a week away, The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs provides an overview of the tight controls enacted in an effort to shroud the date in silence.
Tiananmen Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence已关闭评论
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Compiled by HRIC based on published reports and information available online. Last updated on May 22, 2014.
2014
May 20
Taken into temporary custody—Zan Aizong (昝爱宗), writer, Hangzhou, on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” (寻衅滋事). Released after a half-day in detention. Continue reading
Restrictions, Detentions, and Disappearances before June 4, 2014已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen, Xu Youyu
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW MAY 28, 2014 6:00 PM
Liu Xiaobo.
Reuters
The world has not heard from Liu Xiaobo, its only imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, for a long time.
Not since his impassioned self-defense in a Beijing court in December 2009, when he declared he had “no enemies and no hatred,” not toward the people who had arrested him, nor the judge who sentenced him on that icy Christmas Day for “incitement to subvert state power” for co-authoring Charter 08, Continue reading
May 29, 2014 • 10:20 pm
Updated 29 May 2014
Two months before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, authorities in China began detaining, disappearing, questioning, and intimidating Chinese dissidents, human rights lawyers and activists, journalists, and others. Many of the targeted individuals took part in the pro-democracy demonstrations in the spring of 1989. Continue reading
Individuals Affected by Government Crackdown Around 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, Hu Shigen, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen, Xu Youyu
Posted: 05/27/2014 11:57 am EDT Updated: 05/27/2014 4:59 pm EDT Print Article
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Henry Miller was a devotee of astrology. Continue reading
2014-05-28
A device displays the logo of instant messaging platform WeChat, March 12, 2014.
AFP
China has launched a month-long crackdown on hugely popular instant messaging apps in a bid to purge them of “illegal and harmful information” and to fend off “hostile forces,” official media reported on Wednesday. Continue reading
By: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
PUBLISHED ON MAY 28, 2014
This week in the PEN Poetry Series, guest editor Cathy Park Hong features five new poems by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. About Diggs’s work, Hong writes: “LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs’s poetry is a tense coil of enraptured, disco-cursive, code-switching lines. New York City Continue reading
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