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A child of Tiananmen – young activist campaigns for her father’s release from jail

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20 May 2014

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Ti-Anna’s father, Wang Bingzhang, who is currently in prison in China, named her after Tiananmen Square.Ti-Anna’s father, Wang Bingzhang, who is currently in prison in China, named her after Tiananmen Square.© Ti-Anna Wang.

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Tibet propaganda boss vows to ‘seal’ internet to stop separatists

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BEIJING Wed May 14, 2014 7:05am EDT

(Reuters) – Tibet’s top propaganda official vowed to “seal and stifle” the internet in an effort to defang separatist groups in the Himalayan region, China’s cabinet said on Wednesday.

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Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were

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By Jonathan Mirsky

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Some of the two hundred thousand pro-democracy student protesters face to face with policemen outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, April 22

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Chinese monk arrested ahead of Tiananmen massacre anniversary

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A Chinese monk who led a prodemocracy movement during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and sympathized with the victims of the massacre was arrested in central China’s Hubei Province, Chinese human rights scholar Teng Biao said Monday.

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‘Tiananmen has been an ongoing trauma for me’: HK activists recall pain of helping June 4 protesters

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PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 20 May, 2014, 11:34am

UPDATED : Wednesday, 21 May, 2014, 10:56am
Gary Cheung
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Chong Yiu-kwong (left), Lam Yik-tsz, Tommy Cheung and Victor Wong with the ‘Goddess of Democracy’ at Chinese University in Sha Tin. Photo: Edward Wong
Recalling the events of 1989 traumatised Dr Lam Yik-tsz.

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25 Years On, Mothers Of Tiananmen Square Dead Seek Answers

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by LOUISA LIM May 20, 2014 1:36 PM ET

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A young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, June 3, 1989. A deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters who had been occupying Tiananmen Square began the next day.

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Son of Purged Zhao Ziyang Tells of China’s ‘Shame’

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The South China Morning Post reports that Zhao Wujun, son of the former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang who died under house arrest in 2005, is attempting to restore his father’s legacy:

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Here’s who China has detained so far ahead of the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square

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By Heather Timmons @HeathaT May 12, 2014

 

bn-cr095_tam_g_201405060844551Nearly half these people are in custody</strong>. Back, L to R: Hao Jian, Cui Weiping, Liu Di, Liang Xiaoyan, Hu Shigen, Li Xuewen, and Guo Yuhua. Front: Zhou Fan, Xu Youyu, Zhang Xianling, Qin Hui, Ye Fu, and Pu Zhiqiang.ChinaChange.org
This article was last updated on May 14 at 1:00 PM in Hong Kong.

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Chinese government’s deadly June 4, 1989 crackdown on student protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing is casting a wide net to round up would-be agitators.

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