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<\/a>le 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\nHundreds gathered under polluted skies and the watchful gaze of police in a Beijing suburb this weekend, braving a sustained crackdown on dissent to bid farewell to one of the \u201cblack hands\u201d behind the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest.<\/p>\n
Police prevented China Real Time from attending the funeral of Chen Ziming, 62 years old, who died of pancreatic cancer last week. At least one other would-be attendee, a democracy activist, reported being stopped by authorities on his way to the funeral, which was held in Beijing\u2019s northern Changping district on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
But many others, including some who had never met him, packed the Changping funeral home to bid goodbye to a man who was little-known in the West but remembered by the country\u2019s fractured pro-democracy activists as a unifying figure. Photos of the event seen by China Real Time showed mourners squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder inside the reception hall surrounded by wreaths.<\/p>\n
Wang Ying, a well-known entrepreneur who was among the mourners, put the crowd at between 500 and 600 people.<\/p>\n
The eulogy was delivered by retired Peking University sociologist Zheng Yefu, who described Mr. Chen as one of modern China\u2019s leading figures in the fight against authoritarianism. In an essay written just after Mr. Chen\u2019s death \u2013 large parts of which he repeated during his eulogy, according to those in attendance \u2013 Mr. Zheng listed the various pro-democracy movements leading up to 1989. \u201cWhat\u2019s especially astounding is that, at every step in China\u2019s fight for freedom and rights, he played a central important role.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were good friends,\u201d Mr. Zheng said later by phone, noting that he had known Mr. Chen since 1987. He declined to discuss the specifics of his eulogy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3:40 pm HKT Oct 27, 2014 People t … Continue reading <\/a>
\nWu Yongfen (R) and Chen Erzang (L) held a protest after police refused their application for a demonstration march to demand the release of their jailed dissident son Chen Ziming on medical parole, at a park in Beijing on October 22, 1995. Reuters<\/p>\n