2015-05-11
Hong Kong citizens attend a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4, 2014.
RFA
Hong Kong activists running a museum dedicated to the 1989 student-led protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Continue reading
Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Massacre Museum Under Pressure: Activists已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
2015-05-07
Eleven citizens of Shandong who lost family members in 1989 meet to commemorate the 26th Anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown in late April.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener
Twenty-six years after the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) suppressed the Chinese student-led democracy protests of 1989 with tanks and machine guns, Continue reading
‘We Want The Truth To Be Told’: Tiananmen Mothers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Tiananmen Mothers
2015-05-06
Artist Sun Kai during recent RFA interview.
RFA
A Chinese artist who was portraying the lives of 100 participants in the student-led 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing has abandoned the project in the face of growing pressure from the Continue reading
Chinese Artist ‘Warned Off’ 1989 Tiananmen Activist Photo Project已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
2015-04-23
Xiong Yan (L) and Chai Ling (R) in a Tiananmen discussion hosted by RFA’s Mandarin service, June 4, 2010.
RFA
Former Tiananmen student protest leader Xiong Yan was briefly detained at Hong Kong’s border with China on Thursday before being put on a flight back to the United States, as authorities thwarted an attempt to visit his terminally ill mother, friends and supporters told RFA’s Mandarin Service. Continue reading
Former 1989 Student Leader Stopped at Hong Kong Border With China已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration
Hai Yan
April 23, 2015 3:32 PM
HONG KONG—A Chinese defense lawyer says he has learned that an interview with Voice of America’s Mandarin service is being cited in an indictment against his client, Yu Shiwen, Continue reading
VOA Interview Cited in Case Against Chinese Dissident已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
By PATRICK BOEHLER April 19, 2015
Xiong Yan, center, one of the leaders of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, at a march in Hong Kong in 2009 marking the 20th anniversary of the protests and their suppression by the military.
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On June 9, 1992, Xiong Yan embarked on the fishing boat that smuggled him out of China.
The former law student had once been one of China’s most wanted: Continue reading
Tiananmen Protester’s Plea to China: Let Me See My Dying Mother已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
2015-04-07
Activist Chen Yunfei leads a protest against alleged pollution at a petrochemical plant in Pengzhou, in Sichuan province, March 6, 2015. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have formally detained a prominent rights activist on subversion Continue reading
China Formally Detains Sichuan Activist For ‘Subversion’ After Tiananmen Memorial Visit已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Yunfei, June 4th, Tiananmen
By JACK CHANG and ISOLDA MORILLO
Mar. 11, 2015 10:23 PM EDT
In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, Xu Xing talks about his documentary film work at home in… Read more
BEIJING (AP) — In his small ground-floor apartment just a few blocks from Beijing’s landmark Bird’s Nest stadium, Chinese language teacher, writer and do-it-yourself documentary maker Xu Xing is urgently preserving what he can of China’s forbidden past.
Traveling usually by himself Continue reading
Secret historians preserve past in China amid state amnesia已关闭评论
Posted in History, June 4th Commemoration
