by Tienchi Martin-Liao / June 11, 2014
How the Chinese government’s hidden past is torturing its present.
In Memory of Tiananmen Square Protest
The Hong Kong Federation of Social Work students carry a tombstone with the names of June 4th victims in memory of the Tiananmen Square protests. Photo: Bandari Lei via Flickr. Continue reading
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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / May 28, 2014
A new period of persecution in China.
Tiananmen May 1989
Student protest in Tiananmen Square, May 1989 Photo: Robert Croma via Flickr Continue reading
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By Tom Mitchell in BeijingAuthor alerts
Beijing deported a prominent Chinese-Australian artist on Monday, capping one of China’s most severe crackdowns on dissent in recent years.
Guo Jian, 52, was detained on June 1 for an alleged visa violation, according to China’s foreign affairs ministry. Continue reading
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JUNE 14, 2014
“Pu’s ‘crime’ appears to be nothing more than peacefully pushing the legal system to follow its own laws. By arresting Pu, President Xi has gutted his own commitments to the rule of law, and halted the work of someone critical to legal reform efforts.” Continue reading
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BEIJING — The Chinese authorities on Friday announced the formal arrest of a well-known rights defender who last month took part in a private seminar where participants discussed the army’s violent suppression of the student-led protests of 1989 in Tiananmen Square. Continue reading
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HRDs gathered on 3 May for seminar commemorating Tiananmen Crackdown (canyu.org)HRDs gathered on 3 May for seminar commemorating Tiananmen Crackdown (canyu.org)
On 4 and 5 May 2014 a number of human rights defenders in Beijing were taken in for Continue reading
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The weekend of June 3, 2006, was the seventeenth anniversary of the Beijing massacre and also the first time I ever received a summons. It happened, as the police put it, Continue reading
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Copy the enclosed letter and send it to the address provided.
Thank you for taking action.
Target adresses:
Ms. Wu Aiying
Minister of Justice of the People’s Republic of China, Continue reading
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