Ng Han Guan/AP – Chen Guang, a former People’s Liberation Army soldier turned Beijing-based artist, has been in police detention since May 7.
By Louisa Lim, Published: May 16
Louisa Lim is an NPR correspondent and the author of “The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited,” which will be published June 4.
Dangerous memories of Tiananmen Square已关闭评论
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Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, a Hong Kong triad speaks fully for the first time about how he smuggled 133 students and intellectuals out of the clutches of the Communist party
By Malcolm Moore, Hong Kong5:00AM BST 18 May 2014
Brother Six had the fastest speedboats in Hong Kong, rigged with four outboard engines to outrun the police on both sides of the border.
Tiananmen Massacre 25th anniversary: how Chinese triads enabled the Great Escape已关闭评论
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By Felicia Sonmez | AFP News – Sun, May 18, 2014
China’s Communist authorities ban their own people from accessing major global social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. But when it comes to self-promotion they are increasingly keen users themselvesView Photo
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By MARGALIT FOXMAY 17, 2014
William Worthy, a foreign correspondent who in the thick of the Cold War ventured where the United States did not want him to go — including the Soviet Union, China, Cuba — and became the subject of both a landmark federal case concerning travel rights and a ballad by the protest singer Phil Ochs, died on May 4 in Brewster, Mass. He was 92.
William Worthy, a Reporter Drawn to Forbidden Datelines, Dies at 92已关闭评论
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The events in Tiananmen square remain a taboo in Chinese society
The world’s first museum dedicated to the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square has opened in Hong Kong.
BY HELEN GAO MAY 13, 2014
BEIJING — For those Chinese who have carried their tales of woe for hundreds of miles and suffered numerous bureaucratic setbacks, this seems like mockery. On April 23, China passed a new law banning petitioners from taking grievances to the central government without first trying to resolve them with local officials, even though the petitioning system, which dates back to imperial times, is supposed to allow individuals to appeal directly to higher authorities when they bump up against local bureaucracy. This latest restriction, with the ostensible goal of “streamlining the petitioning system,” all but extinguishes the last hope for many desperate for a sympathetic ear from above. In fact, the petitioning system is blinkered enough that Wang Lin, a law professor at Hainan University, called it a judicial “Catch-22” in a September 2011 essay published in popular newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily.
“Brother Six” tells how he smuggled more than 100 protesters to safety after the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989
5:30AM BST 18 May 2014
It is almost 25 years since the crackdown on a pro-democracy movement around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 led to a bloody massacre.
How a Triad gangster saved Tiananmen Square demonstrators已关闭评论
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