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<\/a>\nPeople take photos during a vigil held to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, in front of a backdrop of Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (back), in Hong Kong, on June 4, 2013. Agence France-Presse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
One of the two activists identified as the \u201cblack hands\u201d behind China\u2019s 1989 democracy protests died of cancer on Tuesday, in a reminder of how little the Communist Party has budged in its tolerance of political dissent over the past quarter century.<\/p>\n
Chen Ziming, 62 years old, died from pancreatic cancer Tuesday afternoon in Beijing, according to close friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cFamous Chinese dissident, so-called June 4th black hand and my mentor Chen Ziming finally succumbed to cancer,\u201d Wang Dan, one of the leaders of the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, wrote on his Facebook page. \u201cHis death is a massive loss for the Chinese opposition movement, and for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Chen and fellow activist Wang Juntao were accused by the government of being the masterminds behind the 1989 protests. In 1991, both were sentenced to 13 years in prison, in a trial authorities used to bolster the official line that the protests had been the work of a handful of conspirators rather than a movement with mass appeal.<\/p>\n
7:30 pm HKT Oct 22, 2014 People t … Continue reading
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