Category Archives: June 4th Commemoration

Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang faces more charges as police hand case to prosecutors

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Activist attorney Pu Zhiqiang is accused of a total of four offences as investigators hand his case to prosecutors in next step towards trial

PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 3:08am UPDATED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 9:34am
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Beijing police had handed over the case of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to Continue reading →

Chinese activist and journalist go on trial

Reporter Gao faces charges of revealing state secrets while Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s life sentence appeal rejected.

Last updated: 21 Nov 2014 08:55

665003303001_3902930311001_201411218648692580-20Chinese authorities have put on trial an outspoken journalist accused of revealing state secrets and rejected an appeal by Continue reading →

Chinese journalist Gao Yu faces life sentence for leaking state secrets

Gao Yu, an outspoken liberal journalist, denies charges as she goes on trial in Beijing

china-gao-yu-2007-300x184Gao Yu was arrested in April and charged with feeding a secret document to ‘an overseas website’ Photo: AFP

Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing10:09AM GMT 21 Nov 2014

A prominent liberal Chinese journalist has denied that she “leaked state secrets” during a four-hour trial in Beijing. Continue reading →

Guo Jian on his Tiananmen Square stand: ‘I’m so proud of what I did’

The Chinese-born Australian artist on the day he was detained and later deported from Beijing for daring to make art about China today

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• Guo Jian: detained for refusing to abide by mass amnesia of Tiananmen Continue reading →

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

3:40 pm HKT Oct 27, 2014

 

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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 →

Chinese Writer, Tackling Tiananmen, Wields ‘Power to Offend’

OCT. 10, 2014

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“When I talk with friends, I reminisce about the ’80s, when everything was not so tainted by the pressure of money, when poets didn’t abandon their work.” — SHENG KEYI Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times
The Saturday Profile

By JANE PERLEZ

BEIJING — WHEN her village was still lush with lotus plants, and a Continue reading →