Posts Tagged ‘Tiananmen square’
December 9th, 2009
Police in China have recommended that prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo be formally charged with subversion. He has been held in jail for over a year without charges and previously served 20 months for his part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The author has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government for many years and was eventually arrested in December 2008 after creating the Charter 08 petition, a manifesto urging political reform. Read more
here (http://www NULL.guardian NULL.co NULL.uk/world/2009/dec/09/chinese-dissident-liu-xiaobo-prosecutors)
June 4th, 2009
Chinese police have cordened off Tiananmen Square, to prevent people marking the 20th anniversary of the massacre and banned foreign press. Earlier today US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to launch an official inquiry. Read more
here (http://news NULL.bbc NULL.co NULL.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8080437 NULL.stm)
June 2nd, 2009
Poet Liu Hongbin fled China after taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests. Here, he describes his experience of returning to China as a persona non grata in 1997
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May 27th, 2009
The online version of one of China’s most radical magazines, Yanhuang Chunqiu (China Through the Ages) has been closed by the censors who patrol the Great Firewall of China, days before the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Read more
here (http://www NULL.timesonline NULL.co NULL.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article6366457 NULL.ece)
May 20th, 2009
Liu Zhihua, the last-known prisoner jailed on the charge of hooliganism after protesting against the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement has been released from jail in China in advance of the 20th anniversary of the protests.Read more
here (http://www NULL.guardian NULL.co NULL.uk/world/2009/may/19/tiananmen-square-leader-released-jail)
May 13th, 2009
The family of exiled Zhou Yongjun, a prominent student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement, say he has been detained trying to enter mainland China and held without charge for more than six months in a secret detention centre. Read more
here (http://www NULL.google NULL.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ih_hP1LWb_3qhbcM1onJF6W1XpHgD9859EGG1)
