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