Fifteen hundred students, most from outside Beijing, remained at thesquare. Many of the students from Beijing started to clean up and packtheir belongings to return home. Some participants called an end to their long protest at...

I have just walked down the road to vote in the local and European elections. When many politicians have been found with their snouts in the trough it is easy to get cynical and to feel that no politician can be trusted but I feel that...

Today we marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, laying flowers outside the Chinese embassy in London. Amnesty supporters were joined by survivors of the crackdown Shao Jiang, Dr Wang Rongfen and Wu Yenhua. They...

Really good to see this – http://www.newstatesman.com/subjects/no-place-for-children – commended by the Amnesty media awards! See the rest of the awards here: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18227 Another example of...

Kate Adie writes on the BBC website that Tiananmen will not be forgotten and she returned to Tiananmen on this evening's BBC 2 programme. I missed all but the last part of the film but like many Amnesty supporters I already knew that...