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In early March various international news organizations published a letter written to the Chinese leadership by Dr. Jiang Yanyong, who gained fame for revealing the SARS epidemic cover-up in 2003. Jiang’s letter called on the Chinese government to reassess the 1989 Democracy Movement during the...

Wang Debang was a fourth-year student at Beijing Normal University who became caught up in the student protests in 1989. On the night of June 3, having learned that soldiers had started killing protesters at Tiananmen, Wang led a group of Beijing Normal students toward the Square in hopes of...

By Pu Zhiqiang While unarmed students and members of the public imprisoned or killed during the crackdown in June 1989 are hailed as victims and martyrs of the democratic cause, greater ambivalence attaches to those convicted of violent or criminal acts. Pu Zhiqiang questions this dichotomy. In the...

By Wang Juntao The political events of 1989 were a milestone in the development of human rights in China. This essay briefly traces the evolution of human rights in China, recounts the writer’s personal experience in defending his rights and interests after 1989, analyses the mechanisms currently...

By Hu Ping The Chinese government’s intransigence regarding June 4th raises the question of whether China’s increasing dominance constitutes a possible threat to world peace.

One of China’s leading thinkers places the failure of the 1989 Democracy Movement and subsequent political stagnation at the feet of the country’s top intellectuals. The reason why we need to think especially carefully about the 1989 Tiananmen Movement is not just that it was the first large-scale...

By Wu Guoguang A senior official sympathetic to the 1989 Democracy Movement, Zhao Ziyang now languishes in obscurity and reported ill health under an apparently interminable house arrest. While commemorative activities focus on the civilian victims of the June 4th crackdown, Wu Guoguang asks, What...

By Liu Xiaobo The Chinese government’s detention of the three Tiananmen Mothers only highlights the righteousness of their cause. 1 On February 28, as the 15th anniversary of June 4th approached, two women who lost their sons, Ding Zilin and Zhang Xianling, and a woman who lost her husband, Huang...

Vera Schwarcz Originally published in Walter Tonetto, ed., Earth Against Heaven: A Tiananmen Square Anthology (Five Islands Press, 1990). Poems revised April 1, 2004. Loudspeakers belch languid waves to drench students hell-bent on marching for “Science” and “Democracy”—as if

Wang Yu From the time you gathered at Tiananmen Our daylight dissolved into your midnight To become a white night enmeshed in nightmares As twilight descended upon your shoulders Dawn’s light slowly ascended Our terrified eyes Irrepressible cries of horror As yet another white night arrived

... The New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) , citing sources in China, said the national Supreme People's Court had approved dissident Zhang Ming's application for an appeal, and had notified the Shanghai Supreme Court to retry the case... Full Article

Barry Newhouse ...The Human Rights in China group says it solicited people in China and abroad for photographs of the protests and it now has more than three thousand pictures. At least half of the photos have never been published before. Many belong to demonstration participants and their families...

Issued on behalf of the June 4th Memorial Global Coalition More than 26 cities in 17 countries will mount an exhibition of 100 photographs commemorating the 15th anniversary of the violent crackdown against the 1989 Democracy Movement in China.

Luis Ramirez ... Nicholas Becquelin is with the Hong Kong office of the US-based Human Rights in China group. "The case has no merits at all. It was a political case," he said. ... Full Article

Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Internet activist Du Daobin will go to trial on May 18 in closed proceedings, and without the benefit of his chosen defense counsel.

James T. Areddy ...But critics charge the redevelopment also extends China's already tight political control over the Uighurs. As in Tibet, new projects in Kashgar and elsewhere in Xinjiang are being built by and for China's dominant Han ethnic group, with harsh penalties doled out to those who try...

...Zhang Ming was sentenced in September to seven years in prison on charges related to his Shanghai business, New York-based Human Rights in China said. Full Article

Susan Jakes April 12, 2004 issue ... and engaged in other activities in violation of China's State Security Law." According to the New York-based watchdog Human Rights in China , which has supported Ding's work, the illegal goods were T shirts from Hong Kong printed with a Tiananmen Mothers logo,...

Zhang Yang ... According to Human Rights in China , the Chinese government has accused the "Tiananmen Mothers" of threatening national safety and subversion of state power ... Full Article

Luis Ramirez Beijing ... The New York-based Human Rights in China group this week quoted relatives as saying the women had been taken away by plainclothes police officers in Beijing ... Full Article

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Christopher Bodeen ... Ma Yalian used several Chinese legal affairs Web sites to post the article documenting her fruitless efforts to petition over the destruction of her Shanghai home, New York-based Human Rights in China, or HRIC , said in a statement... Full Article

Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that petitioner Ma Yalian has been sentenced to one and a half years of Reeducation Through Labor (RTL) because of articles she posted on the Internet exposing the dark side of China’s petitioning system. Ma’s harsh treatment is an example of the recent...

Joe McDonald Ding Zilin, Zhang Xianling and Huang Jinping were picked up Sunday at their homes, the New York-based group Human Rights in China said, citing unidentified sources. It said agents seized letters and T-shirts made to mark the 15th anniversary of the deaths. Zhang's husband was told the...

Al-Jazeera Benjamin Robertson ..."Any input that suggests China is moving towards an international level of human rights is welcomed," said Nick Bequelin of pressure group, Human Rights in China , to Aljazeera.net. "But the constitution already allows for many rights. Adding a vague provision will...

...The New York-based group Human Rights in China issued a press release last week saying it feared Cao would be arrested for subversion upon his return to China. ... Full Article

... The New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) said it supports Washington's decision to sponsor the bill at the UN Commission on Human Rights' meeting in ...

...Ouyang, a former teacher in Suining, Sichuan, said the letter had been repeatedly amended by others as they signed it, and the final version for which he was convicted was not written solely by him, the New York-based group Human Rights in China said... Full Article

"This resolution criticizing China's human rights record is an important step in attempts by the international community to promote the development of human rights in China," said Human Rights in China , an advocacy group based in New York. "Although China has made some progress in its social,...

Perry Link Dr. Jiang Yanyong, who raised the curtain on official lies about the spread of SARS in China last year, has now written a letter about the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing that ended the Tiananmen democracy movement. In it, Jiang calls for a revision of the official account of the...

Liu Fenggang, Xu Yonghai and Zhang Shengqi were tried on Tuesday at the Intermediate Peoples Court of Hangzhou in eastern Zhejiang province, Xu's wife Li Shanna and New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) said. Full Article

Liu Fenggang, Xu Yonghai and Zhang Shengqi were tried on Tuesday at the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou in eastern Zhejiang province, Xu's wife Li Shanna and New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) said.

Agence France-Presse ... estimate is important because it was run in the tightly-controlled state press, said Nicholas Becquelin, the Hong Kong-based director of Human Rights In China . ... Full Article

By Patrick Goodenough

Robert Marquand Last week, as China's National People's Congress prepared to meet, a number of political and religious activists were whisked out of town. On March 5, Hua Huiqi , a house church leader was put under house arrest. When he protested, he was arrested and later beaten, along with his...

Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Shanghai authorities have begun using gangster tactics to dissuade Hong Kong resident Shen Ting from her campaign on behalf of jailed lawyer Zheng Enchong and Shanghai residents displaced by urban redevelopment schemes.