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Over 30 people from the academia, intelligentsia and media hold apublic forum on the movement, noting that the 4.27 march marked thebankruptcy of the Party's authoritarian rule. The class boycott continued, with about 90,000 students...
Government representatives, led by Yuan Mu, spokesman for the StateCouncil, sat down to a three-hour dialogue it had asked the officialNational Students' Union and Beijing Students' Union to sponsor. With afew exceptions, the student...
Theofficial newspaper ( People's Daily ) statement enraged the students. Over 100,000 studentsassemble on the streets of Beijing, and disregarding the warning of acrackdown made by authorities, demanded that the government revoke...
Following an internal speech made by Deng Xiaoping, the CCP's official newspaper Peoples Daily issues a front-page editorial entitled "We must take a firm stand against turmoil", attempting to rally the public behind the government...
Between 19 and 24 April, independent student unions were founded. On 19 April, the Beijing University Students' Preparatory Committee (BUSPC), was established. Student pro-democracy activism continued to gain momentum in the week. As...
April 22nd was the day of the state memorial service for Hu Yaobang. In preparation for the service, authorities had declared that the Square would be sealed off by early morning. However, over two hundred thousands students and...
In the late evening on 18 and 19 April , student demonstrators, their number swelled by onlookers, gathered at Xinhuamen, the ceremonial main entrance to Zhongnanhai, calling for democracy, freedom and dialogue with the leaders. In the...
Hu Yaobang’s death on 15 April triggered student protests in Beijing in 1989. Many wall posters appeared in universities campuses, to mourn Hu Yaobang’s death and promote democracy. In the afternoon on 17 April, hundreds of teachers...
URGENT ACTION: Five Tibetans sentenced for taking part in protests in March 2008 Amnesty International Recommended Action Chinese human rights defender commented on the sentence in Chinese.
Six Tibetans and four Chinese staged a 24-hour hunger strike outside Hu Jintao's Hotel during London's G20 Summit from 1 to 2 April 2009, to protest against China's human rights violations and its repressive policies in Tibet. G20...
London, April 3 – Tibetans, Chinese Human Rights Activists, Burmese Human Rights Activis and supporters here carried out a series of protest against Chinese Dictator President Hu Jintao for the G20 Summit in London. 6Tibetans and 4...
London 31 March 2009 2009 marks a series of important anniversaries. It is 50 years since the Tibetan Uprising, 20 years since the Tiananmen Massacre, 10 years since crackdown on Falun Gong and the Chinese Communist Party will have...