WE WILL NOT FORGET JUNE 4TH!-The 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

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TIANANMEN INITIATIVE PROJECT

WE WILL NOT FORGET JUNE 4TH!

June 4, 2014 will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. We call upon our colleagues around the world in schools and universities, civic organizations, foundations, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, and similar entities to sponsor and convene public events between April 15 and June 4, 2014, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of liu si in the form of teach-ins, lectures, memorial marches, press conferences, and other appropriate forms.

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Perry Link:China After Tiananmen: Money, Yes; Ideas, No

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Soldiers and demonstrators at Tiananmen Square, May, 1989

The June Fourth Massacre in Beijing has had remarkable longevity. What happened in and around Tiananmen Square twenty-five years ago this June not only haunts the memories of people who witnessed the events and of friends and families of the victims, but also persists in the minds of people who stood, and still stand, with the attacking side. Deng Xiaoping, the man who said “go” for the final assault on thousands of Chinese citizens protesting peacefully for democracy, has died. But people who today are inside or allied with the political regime responsible for the killing remain acutely aware of it.

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Ma Jian:The Dark Road from China

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Ma Jian:The Dark Road from China

Amy Hawkins talks to the Chinese writer and exiled dissident about China’s one child policy, and how he still hopes to go home

by Amy Hawkins   

Thursday 30th January 2014, 18:05 GMT
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Ma Jian has not been allowed to return to China since 2011
“I write for the weak and vulnerable, those who have no voice in China,” says Ma Jian, speaking through an interpreter. This is what drives him to write. Considering that his work has been banned in China for the last 25 years, and he
himself has been banned for nearly three, it would seem safe to say that he is the one who has been silenced. However, he does not see it this way. Although an unpopular figure with the Chinese Communist Party, he continues to write prolifically, having recently published his sixth novel, The Dark Road.

“Government is temporary, literature is forever,” he tells me, drawing an analogy between his works and the historically banned Soviet literature that is now freely available to Russian citizens. One day, he hopes, his words will reach those who inspired them.

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Tiananmen Exiles:Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China Palgrave Studies in Oral History

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Tiananmen Exiles:Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China Palgrave Studies in Oral History

 

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Rowena Xiaoqing He and Foreword By Perry Link

Palgrave Macmillan, April 2014

ISBN: 978-1-137-43831-7, ISBN10: 1-137-43831-2,

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In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People’s Liberation Army firing on unarmed citizens in the capital city of Beijing, and those leaders who survived the crackdown became wanted criminals overnight. Among the witnesses to this unprecedented popular movement was Rowena Xiaoqing He, who would later join former student leaders and other exiles in North America, where she has worked tirelessly for over a decade to keep the memory of the Tiananmen Movement alive.

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CHINA: Veteran journalist Gao Yu (f) charged with ‘leaking state secrets abroad’; fears for safety.

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RAPID ACTION NETWORK

9 May 2014

RAN 09/14

CHINA: Veteran journalist Gao Yu (f) charged with ‘leaking state secrets abroad’; fears for safety.

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Veteran journalist Gao Yu went missing on 24 April 2014 and there was no information concerning her fate until 8 May 2014 when the official Chinese news agency Xinhua confirmed that Gao Yu is being detained by Beijing police on the charge of ‘leaking state secrets abroad’. She is accused of leaking a secret document to editors of a foreign website in August 2013. Footage of her ‘confessing’, feared to have been taken under duress, was shown on state television. Her whereabouts remain unknown, and there are serious concerns for her well-being and integrity.

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CHINA: Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) sentenced to 10 years in prison.

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CHINA: Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) sentenced to 10 years in prison.


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12 May 2014

Update #1 to RAN 02/14

CHINA: Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) sentenced to 10 years in prison.

PEN International is shocked by the heavy sentencing of Hong-based publisher Yao Wentian on 7 May 2014. Yao, who has been held in Shenzhen since 27 October 2013, was convicted by the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court on the charge of ‘smuggling prohibited items’ and sentenced to a 10-year jail term. At the time of his arrest he was preparing to publish a book by US-based yao_wentian_detained_sondissident writer Yu Jie, entitled Chinese Godfather Xi Jinping. PEN believes the trial and conviction to bepolitically motivated. Yao suffers from asthma and a heart complaint and there are serious concerns for his health.
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ICPC Statement on the Detention of Its Member Li Jianhong for Returning to China

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Li JianhongThe Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) is outraged to learn that its member Miss Li Jianhong (aka Xiao Qiao) was taken into custody by the police from her home in Shanghai, China, in the afternoon of 12 February 2014, since when she has been held incommunicado in an unknown location. ICPC fears that Miss Li has been unjustly detained and mistreated for her returning to China as well as for her words and deeds abroad, and therefore strongly demands the Chinese authorities to restore her personal freedom, and ensure all of her legal rights. Continue reading →

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ICPC Statement on Criminal Detention of Uyghur PEN Member Ilham Tohti

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Ilham TohtiIndependent Chinese PEN Center is seriously concerned about the reports of criminal detention of Ilham Tohti, a member of Uyghur PEN and associate professor of economics at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, and fears that he has been retaliated for his criticizing remarks. ICPC calls on the government to restitute as soon as possible his personal freedom, freedom of expression and other basic rights, and release all of those imprisoned for their words, including ICPC former and honorary president Dr. Liu Xiaobo. Continue reading →

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