Category Archives: June 4th Commemoration

Restrictions, Detentions, Disappearances, Arrests before and beyond June 4, 2014

Compiled by HRIC based on published reports and information available online. Last updated on June 19, 2014. Total Count: 130 individuals. (An asterisk (*) denotes that the detention or physical restriction of the individual has ended.). Continue reading

Sensitive Words: Returning From Exile, Hunting Tigers

As of June 20, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).

Returning From Exile: Tiananmen protest leader Zhou Fengsuo, who has been living in exile as a US citizen for the past 25 years, returned to Beijing on the anniversary of the June 4th crackdown. Continue reading

China Expands Crackdown on Free Expression

 

Protester holds mask of Chinese President Xi Jinping during demonstration for Chinese journalist Gao Yu, Hong Kong publisher Yao Wentian, Continue reading

China arrests a lawyer for urging it to uphold its laws

BY EDITORIAL BOARD June 18 at 7:46 PM

A SINGLE thread seems to run through recent detentions and arrests in China: The authorities are cracking down on lawyers and other people who have demanded that China follow its own laws. Continue reading

You Won’t Get Near Tiananmen!’: Hu Jia on the Continuing Crackdown

IAN JOHNSON 06.02.14

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Activist Hu Jia in Beijing, April 2014. Continue reading

Chinese Lawyers Lodge Formal Complaint Over New Rules

2014-06-17


Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (L) stands with his lawyer Pu Zhiqiang as he leaves for court in Beijing, July 20, 2012.
AFP
Chinese lawyers have launched a signature campaign against moves Continue reading

Chinese rights lawyers warn of crackdown after arrest of Pu Zhiqiang

Detentions of artist Ai Weiwei’s lawyer and numerous others reveal Beijing’s fear about growth in rights activism, says

Tania Branigan in Beijing

theguardian.com, Tuesday 17 June 2014 10.09 EDT

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Chinese Netizens, Commentators Slam ‘Massacre’ Article

2014-06-16 


Visitors looking at photos of victims at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, June 11, 2014.
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