Detained Chinese Feminist Wins New Human Rights Honor
Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Detained activist Su Changlan, who has been in pre-trial detention for more than two years, on Tuesday received a prestigious human rights award from a coalition of Chinese human rights groups. Su, 45, is the third recipient of the Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders, in honor […]
No Official Memorial For Chairman Mao, 40 Years After Death
Xin Lin and Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Forty years after his death at the age of 82, late supreme leader Mao Zedong still presents a political dilemma to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. While revering Mao as the leader who founded the People’s Republic on Oct. 1, 1949, the party has been forced […]
Yu Shiwen Hunger Strikes in Protest at Two Year Detention Without Trial For Holding Zhao Ziyang Memorial
China Change This article was first published on ChinaChange.org website on May 3, 2016 Shortly before June 4, 2014, ten citizens in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, were arrested for holding a public memorial for Zhao Ziyang , the late Communist Party leader who died under house arrest in 2005. Zhao’s crime was to show sympathy […]
Tiananmen Square Memorial Opens in Hong Kong
The world’s first museum dedicated the Tiananmen crackdown of 1989 had open its door in Hong Kong, 25 years after the events.
In mainland China references to the crackdown are banned, the organizers of the museum said: “Chinese people need to know more about what happened, and call on Beijing to face its troubled history”.