More Than 100,000 Mark Massacre Anniversary in Hong Kong Vigil
Wong Si-lam and Xin Lin | Radio Free Asia Around 100,000 people turned out in Hong Kong on Sunday to commemorate the 28th anniversary of a June 4, 1989, military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square student movement, in a mass rally and candlelight vigil that is an annual fixture in the former British colony. Some […]
Statement Upon the Third Anniversary of the Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Group
In China, the protection of human rights has been written into the constitution, but what’s written on paper is no more than dressed-up formality: intellectuals don’t dare to speak up, and victims are ignorant of their rights.
As Tiananmen Anniversary Nears, June 4 Disappears from the China’s Web
Xin Lin and Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia China’s Internet giant Baidu.com is blocking keyword searches linked to the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests as Beijing attempts to throttle discussion ahead the 27th anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on the pro-democracy demonstrations. The move follows a period of relative freedom to search […]
China Marks First Anniversary of Constitution Day With Awkward Silence
<!–[CDATA[ Bruce Lui | China Change This article was first published in China Change web site on December 4, 2015 The Chinese Communist Party marked the anniversary of its inaugural “National Constitution Day” on December 4 with more action than words: workers’ rights NGOs were raided and activists detained; the author of “A History of […]
On the 26th Anniversary of Tian’anmen Massacre – an Open Letter to Fellow Students in Mainland China
<!–[CDATA[This article was first published by China Change.org This letter, written in Chinese, has been circulating through email groups and on social media since May 20. Yesterday the Chinese Communist Party-run Global Times gave it a free publicity push – double strength (here and here). – The Editor We are a group of Chinese students born in […]
Military presence intensified in Amdo, Tibet
Free Tibet China sends work teams to Tibetan monasteries to “protect” them from protests [caption id="attachment_2780" align="alignleft" width="300"] 10 March in London (Free Tibet)[/caption] Chinese authorities have tightened security in areas of Golog and Rebkong ahead of March 10th, the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising of 1959 and the intense protests in 2008. Images show […]