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Art Spawned by Hong Kong Protest; Now to Make It Live On

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By JOYCE LAUNOV. 14, 2014

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Art on the Streets

CreditNicolas Asfouri/Getty Images — Agence France-Presse
HONG KONG — Thousands of pastel Post-it notes, marked with messages of support for pro-democracy Continue reading →

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Benny Tai’s daughter writes of ‘unbearable pain’ seeing her father’s ‘white hair, coarse voice’

Posted on 11/12/2014 by | Benny Tai’s daughter writes of ‘unbearable pain’ seeing her father’s ‘white hair, coarse voice’已关闭评论

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 11 November, 2014, 9:59pm

UPDATED : Wednesday, 12 November, 2014, 11:06am

Tony Cheung, Joyce Ng and Jeffie Lam

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Benny Tai with Tonya as a little girl. Photo: SCMP Pictures

The daughter of Occupy Central co-founder Benny Continue reading →

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

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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 →

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Friends Gone to Jail – Chinese Activists Kou Yanding and Guo Yushan

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By Zeng Jinyan, published: October 30, 2014

“Watching his friends, who happen to be the hope of a better China, going to prison one after another, is more than personal shame. It is the shame of our time.”

Kou Yanding was taken away by police in Beijing on October 10th for “picking quarrels and provoking disturbances.” The day before on October 9th, Guo Yushan was criminally detained on the same charge. Continue reading →

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Hong Kong protests bring crisis of confidence for traditional media

Posted on 10/31/2014 by | Hong Kong protests bring crisis of confidence for traditional media已关闭评论

Young turn to social media as newspapers and TV stations owned by local tycoons take care not to offend mainland China

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Students demonstrate in Hong Kong, where protests are now in their second month. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Continue reading →

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

Posted on 10/29/2014 by | Under Cloud of Repression, Hundreds Turn Out to Mourn Tiananmen Square ‘Black Hand’已关闭评论

3:40 pm HKT Oct 27, 2014

 

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Hundreds gathered under polluted skies Continue reading →

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Chen Ziming – Veteran Dissident ‘Who Worried About China And Its People’

Posted on 10/25/2014 by | Chen Ziming – Veteran Dissident ‘Who Worried About China And Its People’已关闭评论

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 →

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Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing

Posted on 10/23/2014 by | Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing已关闭评论

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 →

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