Shao Jiang

On April 29, 1989, a "dialogue" took place, hosted by the State Council Spokesman Yuan Mu. However, it felt more of a press conference than a dialogue as Yuan Mu controlled the scene by dishing out partly-line answers. Students were...

Chen Laishun (陈来顺) , Graduate of the photography class in 1989, Journalism Department, Chinese People's University On the night of June 3, 1989, while taking photographs on top of a building by the northwest side of the Great Hall of...

Three dozens writers and scholars protested against Jiang Zemin’s purge of the World Economic Herald #八九六四 #八九六四二五 #89June4 25年前的今天（4月28日）北大贴出无署名大字报《几点建议》，提示学生“对话的依据是宪法和北大学生先前提出的7条要求，要达到目标，必须对7条有明确答复；正确评价此次运动，反对称之为动乱；承认学生自治组织的合法性”。...

China Human Rights Briefing April 18-24, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Sentences, Trials, Indictments & Arrests in the Crackdown: A CHRD Guide Special Notice Profiling New Prisoners of Conscience in China Arbitrary Detention...

Yuetan High School in Beijing. At 3:30 a.m. on June 4, he was killed at the south end of Nanchang Street, south of Tiananmen Square. A bullet went in from his left forehead and came out from behind his left ear. His ashes are currently...

Tens of thousands of college students in Beijing walked out of their campuses to Tiananmen,to protest against the authority’s April 26th Editorial. Crowds of people lined the route and cheered the students. Open support for their...

XiaO Bo （肖波）, instructor from the Chemistry Department in Beijing University，protested against People's Daily editorial on 26 April. On the night of June 3, 1989, his birthday, Xiao went to Muxudi with a view to sending the wounded...

People's Daily editorial and restrictions on demonstrations in Beijing were widely broadcast. Meanwhile, the 38th Army was called into Beijing,to join Beijing Garrison troops in guarding Tiananmen Square and other Party-Government...

Lu Chunlin (陆春林), Graduate student from Philosophy Department at People's University, marched into Tiananmen and sit in there during the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement. Lu was shot dead by the martial law troops at Muxudi on the night of...

The newly formed Beijing Students Autonomous Federation held its first general meeting at University of Political Science and Law. In a somewhat clandestine atmosphere, hundreds of student delegates debated on the merit of a plan to...

Jiang Jielian (蒋捷连), high school student, sit in at Xinhuamen and he and other students were dispersed by police on 19 April. He joined in March into Tiananmen many times. Jiang left home at around 10:30 p.m. on June 3,1989. At about...

Monday, April 24, 1989, was the first day of the city-wide class strike for almost all colleges in Beijing. While not going to classes, students kept themselves busy in organising their own solidarity unions while they called for...

Wu Guofeng (吴国峰), from Department of Industrial Economics and Management at People's University, a member of the Autonomous Union in his university, staged a hunger strike, together with 3000 other students, in Tiananmen Square. On the...

Student set up first four radio stations and more autonomous unions appeared. Student representatives from 21 universities met to set up Beijing Students Autonomous Federation

Cao Shunli ( 曹顺利) & Her Legacy March 28, 1961 – March 14, 2014 “Our impact may be large, may be small, and may be nothing. But we must try. It is our duty to the dispossessed and it is the right of civil society.” Cao Shunli Activist...

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...