CNSNews: China girds for anniversary of Beijing killings

Excerpted from CNSNews:

The advocacy group Human Rights in China (HRIC) reports that several leading dissidents have also been placed under house arrest, put under round-the-clock surveillance or forbidden to travel.

It said police took one man, writer and former "June Fourth prisoner" Wu Gaoxing, from his home near Shanghai last weekend, after he and four fellow ex-prisoners had written an open letter to Chinese leaders seeking redress for being denied regular jobs, pensions and health care for years since their 1989 incarceration.

A spokesperson for a group called the Tiananmen Mothers - mothers and other relatives of victims of the crackdown - was ordered to leave Beijing for the anniversary period, HRIC said.

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For more information on this issue, see:

• Human Rights in China, "Chinese Authorities Detain Former June Fourth Prisoner Wu Gaoxing after Open Letter," June 1, 2009
• Human Rights in China, "Open Letter to China's Leaders from Five Former June Fourth Prisoners from Zhejiang," May 30, 2009
• Human Rights in China, June Fourth Resources
• "Portraits of Lives Lost and the Quest for Justice," A video by the Tiananmen Mothers
• Human Rights in China, June Fourth Prisoner List, May 2009
• Human Rights in China, June Fourth Podcast Series
• Human Rights in China, “Tiananmen Mothers: Public Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the June Fourth Massacre,” May 27, 2009