JUNE 9, 2014
BEIJING — Taobao, China’s online shopping website, opened for business on May 10, 2003, a brainchild of Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group. Taobao’s range of operations spans both consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales, and during the last 11 years it has achieved spectacular growth. Continue reading
By Richard Finney
2014-06-04
Chinese paramilitary police patrol in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, June 20, 2008. Continue reading
2014-06-04
A man takes a picture with his mobile phone as people hold candles to commemorate China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square events during a vigil in Hong Kong, June 4, 2014. Continue reading
Hong Kong Marks Tiananmen 25th Anniversary As China Clamps Down已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
By THE INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 8, 2014
An open letter to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, criticizing the arrests of scholars, writers and others before the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary, was signed as of Wednesday by 79 international China scholars. Continue reading
Open Letter to China Leader Criticizes June 4 Detentions已关闭评论
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POSTED: 05 Jun 2014 19:07
China’s state censors on Thursday scrubbed the Internet of references to commemorations of the Tiananmen incident including a huge vigil in Hong Kong, extending a campaign of repression that has seen dozens of critics detained. Continue reading
China censors sweep web of Tiananmen references已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Compiled by HRIC based on published reports and information available online. Last updated on June 6, 2014. Total Count: 126 individuals. (Those with an asterisk have been released). Continue reading
Restrictions, Detentions, and Disappearances before June 4, 2014已关闭评论
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China lawyers demand access to activists detained ahead of Tiananmen anniversary已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Tiananmen, Yu Shiwen
This portrait photo taken by Chinese artist Guo Jian, shows him in his studio
Guo Jian was studying art in Beijing before he took part in the 1989 student protests
Tiananmen: China to deport Australian artist Guo Jian已关闭评论
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