2015-08-06
A file photo of Gao Yu speaking in Hong Kong.
AFP
Human rights and press freedom groups on Thursday called on Beijing to release veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who is currently serving a jail term for “leaking state secrets,” amid fears that her health may be rapidly deteriorating.
Gao, 71, currently suffers from chronic heart pain, Continue reading
Human Rights, Press Freedom Groups Call For Release of Jailed Chinese Journalist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist
2015-08-04
Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has been held on questionable charges since May 2014, in an undated file photo.
AFP
Authorities in the Chinese capital have once more extended the criminal detention of a top rights lawyer, his attorney said, amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s legal profession.
Pu Zhiqiang, 50, was indicted on May 15 for “incitement to racial hatred” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” after being held in criminal detention for more than a year.
While the move should mean his case now moves to trial, Continue reading
Beijing Extends Detention of Top Rights Lawyer Amid Ongoing Crackdown已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Li Heping, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
2015-07-08
Former Tiananmen student protest leader Xiong Yan has called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to allow him to return home to bury his mother.
Xiong, 50, was briefly detained at Hong Kong’s border with China in April when he tried to visit his then terminally ill mother.
His plight mirrors that of dozens of exiled Continue reading
Former 1989 Student Leader Calls On Beijing Allow Him to Attend Mother’s Funeral已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
By Wang Yaqiu, published: June 4, 2015
Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
LIU XIAOBO IN 1989, SECOND FROM RIGHT.
In the spring of 1989, Dr. Liu Xiaobo left Columbia University where he was a visiting scholar and went back to Beijing to take part in the democracy movement. In Tiananmen Square, he became a leader and a mentor, drafting open letters, giving speeches and leading a hunger strike. Continue reading
The Torchbearers – Participants in the 1989 Democracy Movement Who Are Currently in Prison已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged June 4th, Liu Xiaobo, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
By Liao Yiwu, translated by Cindy Carter, published: May 24, 2015
My friend Chen Yunfei (陈云飞) has never been of a serious disposition; his mode of dress is, if anything, even less serious. One year on June 4th, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, he was clad from the waist up in a suit and tie, and from the waist down in a pair of short Continue reading
Liao Yiwu: Tamer of Beasts, Tamer of Despots已关闭评论
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Tagged Chen Yunfei, June 4th, Liao Yiwu, Tiananmen
Translated by Matthew Robertson, June 2, 2015
“What we need to grasp is that the existence of a political system that is so perverse in its reason, and so unfair and unjust to its subjects, is an open taunt to the conscience and sense of justice of humanity. The international rise of that system, too, is perforce a threat to freedom and world peace.”
REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR, THIS PHOTO IS FROM A PERSONAL COLLECTION. HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/ZHOUFENGSUO/STATUS/602473738148257794
Twenty-six years ago in China, Continue reading
Hu Ping: How the Tiananmen Massacre Changed China, and the World已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
2015-06-16
Guangzhou-based activist Liu Shaoming in an undated photo.
Boxun
Authorities in the Chinese capital have detained an outspoken rights activist who publicly voiced support for last year’s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, his wife said on Tuesday.
Zhai Yanmin is currently being held in a Continue reading
Chinese Police Hold Outspoken Activists in Beijing, Guangzhou已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Liu Shaoming, Tiananmen
2015-06-09
Du Yanlin photographs himself with an umbrella on Tiananmen Square, June 4, 2015.
Photo courtesy of Du Yanlin
Authorities in the Chinese capital are holding an activist on public order charges after he raised a black umbrella on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 military crackdown on the student-led democracy movement, activists said.
Du Yanlin, 52, who has worked for outspoken artist Continue reading
China Holds Activist Who Posted Umbrella Selfie on Tiananmen Square on June 4已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
