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...