Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'June Fourth'
Police Quash Tiananmen Memorials
By Radio Free AsiaJune 03, 2010 China blocks efforts to commemorate the 1989 massacre in Beijing of pro-democracy demonstrators. Attempts to stage public events and protests commemorating the 21st anniversary of the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy movement...
We will NEVER forget
From the publishers of Truth About China on June 04, 2010...
Tiananmen Mothers demand end to government silence over massacre
By AsiaNews.it04 June 2010 Open Letter of the families of those killed in the massacre of June 4, 1989. The Party does not respond and waits for them to "die" to get rid of the problem. With the anniversary approaching,...
Tank Victim Gets US Asylum
By Radio Free AsiaFebruary 09, 2010 A victim of China's 1989 crackdown says he's looking forward to his new life. WASHINGTON--A promising Chinese athlete whose legs were crushed by a tank during the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy...
Police swarm Tiananmen Square on anniversary
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writers via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News04 June 2009 BEIJING - In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in...
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Blocks Sites
By Michael Wines and Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESJune 3, 2009 China's government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Micarosoft's live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens...
Tiananmen Square Remembered: Three Participants Tell Their Stories
The Epoch TimesJune 1, 2009 On April 14, 1989 in Beijing, students began gathering to honor the death of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded former general secretary of the Communist Party. The students began calling for a number of reforms of...
Opinion: Dissent remains silenced in China
By Wu'er Kaixi | CNNMay 31, 2009 Editor's note: Wu'er Kaixi was a student leader in 1989, and since then has been living in exile outside of China. On June 4 this year, it will have been 20 years since...
20 years on, Tiananmen survivors demand 'truth' from China
By Agence France Presse (AFP) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 26, 2009 Exiled Chinese dissidents who survived the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstration said on Tuesday that, after 20 years, China should be held to account for the...
Mao Portrait Protesters Get Asylum
By RADIO FREE ASIAMay 19, 2009 Two men jailed for a high-profile act of vandalism in 1989 get U.S. asylum and treatment for trauma suffered in prison. HONG KONG--Two protesters who helped splatter Mao Zedong's portrait with red paint during...
Secret Memoir Offers Look Inside China's Politics
By Erik Eckholm | THE NEW YORK TIMESMay 15, 2009 In May 1989, as he feuded with hard-line party rivals over how to handle the students occupying Tiananmen Square, China's Communist Party chief requested a personal audience with Deng Xiaoping,...
US dismayed by reported arrest of China protest leader
By AFP - Agence France Presse - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 13, 2009 The United States voiced concern Wednesday over China's reported arrest of a student leader of the 1989 democracy protests. "We are disturbed by reports that prominent Chinese...
How the Family of a Dissident Fled China
By David W. Chen | The New York Times Sunday, May 10, 2009 Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most irrepressible dissidents, began the day of Jan. 9 the same way as most days since security officials had begun watching him...
Netizens Defy Tiananmen Silencing
By RADIO FREE ASIAApril 22, 2009 As the 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown approaches, Chinese netizens find ways to work around government censorship. HONG KONG An article criticizing China's deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing has...
China Rights Activist Beaten in Cemetery
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesApril 07, 2009 Last Saturday was tomb-sweeping day, when the Chinese traditionally honor the dead. Sun Wenguang, a 75-year-old retired professor, was one of many to visit the cemetery. Apparently, though, he chose...
China "mothers" urge reckoning with 1989 bloodshed
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsFebruary 27, 2009 A group representing families of demonstrators killed or maimed in the armed crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests 20 years ago has urged China to name the dead, denouncing official silence...
AN APPEAL FROM THE TIANANMEN MOTHERS TO THE GOVERNMENT: SET A TIMETABLE FOR DIALOGUE ON THE JUNE FOURTH MASSACRE
Published by HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINAFebruary 28, 2008 On the eve of the Eleventh National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, we, a group of mothers of those killed in the June Fourth Massacre and, therefore, victims...
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