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Yu Zhou（于卓）, from Department of Mathematics, University of Hubei, set up an independent Student's Autonomous Federation on 22 April. Yu fled to Nepal after was wanted by the police in June 1989. A week before Li Peng visited Nepal...
Security cordoned off the east entrance to the Great Hall, but several student representatives pressed forward. Three of these students knelt on the steps of the Great Hall to present a petition and demanded to see Premier Li Peng...
Sun Hui （孙 辉）, student from Chemistry Department at Beijing University, participated in the march to #Tiananmen. In the early morning of June 4, 1989, Sun was bicycling around looking for classmates who had been dispersed by the...
Students in some universities started to strike, to protest police violence and the authorities' turning a deaf ear to students' seven demands. Also on this day, some intellectuals published open letters to support students' demand. In...
The Haidian District People’s Court announced guilty verdicts on April 18 for lawyer Ding Jiaxi (丁家喜) as well as activists Li Wei (李蔚) , Zhao Changqing (赵常青) , and Zhang Baocheng (张宝成) who were all tried last week in Beijing (see...
China Human Rights Briefing April 11-17, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Lawyer Driving Car with Anti-Corruption Slogans from Guangdong to Beijing, Detained upon Arriving at Ding Jiaxi’s Trial Shenzhen NGO Workers Detained in...
Hu Jian （胡践） lecturer from Taiyuan Industrial University, organised protests on campus and in the local central square. He set up local independent student unions. After 4th June, he went to Beijing, submitting a petition letter to the...
At 3am, hundred peaceful demonstrators at Xinhuamen were suddenly set upon by police wielding belts and clubs who attempted to disperse the protesters, and numerous students were injured. thousand students at noon marched to Tiananmen...
Wen Jie （温杰）, instructor from Beijing Fashion Institute, received a master's degree in Chinese from Beijing University in 1988, posted Big Character Posters here and Peking Univ on 19 April 1989, contacting students and teachers in...
Yan Wen (严文) joined in Big Character Poster campaign in Peking Univ on 18 April, giving public support to the sit-ins. In the evening on the New Year's day 1987, Yan and thousdand students marched to Tiananmen, demanding immediate...
Xiao Jie (肖杰, aka 肖峰杰), student at People's University in China, one of student representatives, handed in the Seven-Point Demands in the Great Hall of People. Xiao organized a society, invesigating social and political phenomena and...
In the evening, about four thousand students gathered at The Triangle at the center of the campus in Beida, to listen to a few speakers taking their turns on a stool. With a voice vote, the crowd "disbanded" the official student union...
Today in 1989, people gathered in front of the People's Monument in Tiananment Square, giving speeches and posting poems. More images in Tweets in Chinese ==Tweets in Chinese=== 25年前的今天（4月16日）， # 天安门 # 纪念碑 前人群开始聚集，讲演和张贴诗文。 # 八九六四 #8964...
This year is the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement and the June 4 Massacre. 25 years ago, Hu Yaobang's death triggered Student Movement. Big Character posters in memory of Hu, criticism of the government and of overt...
April 2014 A joint briefing by the China NGO Network, London On the occasion of the upcoming UK-China human rights dialogue, the China NGO Network wishes to draw attention to a number of key concerns. Key concerns: Crackdown on freedom...
[10 April 2014] Tibet Society has learned that the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue, due to take place on 14-15 April, has been cancelled. Sources say that the Chinese government unilaterally called the meeting off due to disagreements...
China Human Rights Briefing April 4-10, 2014 Contents Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment & Punishment Details of Torture Emerge, Released Lawyers Underwent Medical Exam Update on Crackdown on Peaceful Assembly...
China Human Rights Briefing March 28 – April 3, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Two Dozen Detained, Many Assaulted Over Black Jail Investigation in Heilongjiang Former Masanjia RTL Torture Victim Detained for Seeking Justice Detained...