Category Archives: Special Topics

Individuals Affected by Government Crackdown Around 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre

May 29, 2014 • 10:20 pm
Updated 29 May 2014

Two months before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, authorities in China began detaining, disappearing, questioning, and intimidating Chinese dissidents, human rights lawyers and activists, journalists, and others. Many of the targeted individuals took part in the pro-democracy demonstrations in the spring of 1989. Continue reading

Tiananmen’s Wang Dan to Beijing: Democracy, or die

By nealmoore | Posted May 27, 2014 | Taipei, Taiwan 
CNN PRODUCER NOTE neal moore told me, ‘I’ve covered the Chinese dissident beat here in Taipei for the past several years. I reached out to Wang Dan to share his thoughts on the past, present, and future of the protests, Continue reading

Escape From Tiananmen: How Secret Plan Freed Protesters

By Bloomberg News May 27, 2014 5:00 PM ET

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Photographer: Catherine Henriette/AFP via Getty Images
Students from Beijing University stage a demonstration at Tiananmen Square as they start a hunger strike as part of Continue reading

Sensitive Words: Tiananmen, Bo Xilai, More

As of May 22, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).

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Image from “the world besieges the fortress” campaign.

Tiananmen: Some keywords related to June 4th are forever Continue reading

Tiananmen Square Anniversary Prompts Campaign of Silence

By ANDREW JACOBS MAY 27, 2014
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A police officer guarded a Mao Zedong portrait at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Credit Petar Kujundzic/Reuters

BEIJING — Even by the standards of the clampdowns that Continue reading

China detains Nikkei journalist ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

May 28, 2014 12:49 pm

By Lucy Hornby in Beijing

The Nikkei Japanese news agency was on Wednesday formally notified of the detention of its Chinese news assistant two weeks after she was taken from her home by Chinese security agents.

The detention is part of a pattern of arrests of civil rights activists Continue reading

Engaging China on Human Rights

China is bound to act in its national interest. Upholding human rights is one of those interests.

By Julia Famularo
April 22, 2014

What will it take for the Chinese government to view human rights lawyers and defenders within China not as threats, but rather as well-intentioned citizens who want to help their nation? Continue reading

China hits activists with common-crime charges

 

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(Ng Han Guan/ Associated Press ) – In this photo taken Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Chinese dissident Hu Jia talks on his phone during a meeting at a restaurant in Beijing, China. In prosecuting the country’s political and social activists, an image-conscious Beijing is shifting its tactics. Continue reading