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Tiananmen at 25: The Weekly Reading Round-Up

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Maura Cunningham
As the June Fourth anniversary grows closer, security measures in China continue to tighten. The anniversary’s approach has also coincided with a spate of terrorist acts in China’s western region of Xinjiang, where explosive devices detonated in a market on Thursday morning killed 31 people and injured nearly 100 more. In Shanghai, a visit by Russian president Vladimir Continue reading

Chinese monk arrested ahead of Tiananmen massacre anniversary

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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