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.
‘Tiananmen has been an ongoing trauma for me’: HK activists recall pain of helping June 4 protesters已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
by LOUISA LIM May 20, 2014 1:36 PM ET
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.
25 Years On, Mothers Of Tiananmen Square Dead Seek Answers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Wang Nan, Zhang Xianlin
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:
Son of Purged Zhao Ziyang Tells of China’s ‘Shame’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Zhao Ziyang
By Heather Timmons @HeathaT May 12, 2014
Nearly 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.
Here’s who China has detained so far ahead of the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Gao Yu, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen, Xu Youyu
Ng Han Guan/AP – Chen Guang, a former People’s Liberation Army soldier turned Beijing-based artist, has been in police detention since May 7.
By Louisa Lim, Published: May 16
Louisa Lim is an NPR correspondent and the author of “The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited,” which will be published June 4.
Dangerous memories of Tiananmen Square已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Guang, June 4th, Tiananmen
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, a Hong Kong triad speaks fully for the first time about how he smuggled 133 students and intellectuals out of the clutches of the Communist party
By Malcolm Moore, Hong Kong5:00AM BST 18 May 2014
Brother Six had the fastest speedboats in Hong Kong, rigged with four outboard engines to outrun the police on both sides of the border.
Tiananmen Massacre 25th anniversary: how Chinese triads enabled the Great Escape已关闭评论
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Tagged Chen Dazheng, Hong Kong, June 4th, Tiananmen
The events in Tiananmen square remain a taboo in Chinese society
The world’s first museum dedicated to the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square has opened in Hong Kong.
BY HELEN GAO MAY 13, 2014
BEIJING — For those Chinese who have carried their tales of woe for hundreds of miles and suffered numerous bureaucratic setbacks, this seems like mockery. On April 23, China passed a new law banning petitioners from taking grievances to the central government without first trying to resolve them with local officials, even though the petitioning system, which dates back to imperial times, is supposed to allow individuals to appeal directly to higher authorities when they bump up against local bureaucracy. This latest restriction, with the ostensible goal of “streamlining the petitioning system,” all but extinguishes the last hope for many desperate for a sympathetic ear from above. In fact, the petitioning system is blinkered enough that Wang Lin, a law professor at Hainan University, called it a judicial “Catch-22” in a September 2011 essay published in popular newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily.
