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
China’s Lou Ye and Iran’s Bahman Ghobadi are both at Cannes Film Festival with movies made undercover after they were barred from working by the authorities at home. ” Read more here and here
Two US journalists arrested in North Korea near its border with China in March are set to face trial on June 4. Read more here
Twenty years ago this week, Chinese students began their occupation of Tiananmen Square, a protest that ended in a massacre. In an exclusive extract from the next issue of Index on Censorship, Wang Dan, a leading figure in the 1989 movement, talks to writer Xinran about the fallout and the legacy
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