May 19, 2014 • 6:11 pm
Six Arbitrary Detentions in Guangzhou, Shanghai & Beijing
(The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders – May 19, 2014) – The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a coalition of Chinese and international human rights NGOs, has been informed by Rights Defense Network (Weiquanwang) that more lawyers and activists—six individuals in Continue reading
Alert: More Lawyers & Activists Criminally Detained or Disappeared in Run-up to Tiananmen Anniversary已关闭评论
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Tagged June 4th, Liu Shihui, Pu Zhiqiang, Tang Jingling, Tiananmen
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(TibetanReview.net, May21, 2014) – China has arrested, detained or held away from home against their will some 50 dissidents since early this month ahead of the anniversary of the Jun 3-4, 1989 Tiananmen Square bloodbath, Continue reading
China detains some 50 dissidents ahead of 1989 Tiananmen Square anniversary已关闭评论
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Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government seeks to suppress commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown’s 25th anniversary next month. From AP’s Didi Tang:
As the 25th anniversary of the June 4th, 1989 crackdown on protest in Tiananmen square grows ever nearer, names are being added to the list of those detained, placed under house arrest, or questioned by authorities as the central government makes efforts to conceal commemoration of that unfortunate date 25 years ago (for up-to-date records of detentions, house-arrests, and other restrictions, see lists from Human Rights in China and Amnesty International).
20 May 2014
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.
A child of Tiananmen – young activist campaigns for her father’s release from jail已关闭评论
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Tagged June 4th, Ti-Anna Wang, Tiananmen, Wang Bingzhang
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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
Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were已关闭评论
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Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Zhao Ziyang
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.
Chinese monk arrested ahead of Tiananmen massacre anniversary已关闭评论
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