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...

I was in court on Monday to hear first-hand the ludicrous decision to continue the trial of 29 young women and men in what has been coined the ‘Twitter trial’. The prosecution – based solely on tweets about the Gezi Park protests last...

Ahead of the Indonesian elections this month we joined TAPOL, Survival International and Down to Earth outside the Indonesian Embassy to call for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners of conscience imprisoned solely for...