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1989: Bearing Witness to the Ultimate Beauty: Diary of an Eyewitness in the Square
Translation and Abridgment by Human Rights in China When the tank arrived, the students were sitting in a circle in the center of Tiananmen Square. The opening ceremony of the Democracy University in the Square had begun.
May 22, 2007
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Tan Zuoren: A Chronology
May 15, 1954 Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. 1972–1975 Sent to the countryside in Shimian County, Sichuan Province, as an educated youth. 1975–1978 Studied at Sichuan Medical College. 1978–1989 Worked as a surgeon at a hospital affiliated with the West China University of Medical Sciences. 1989...
November 16, 2011
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About Tan Zuoren
Tan Zuoren (谭作人) is a prominent environmental activist and writer from Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Tan is known for compiling a roster of the children who had died in the shoddily-built schoolhouses that collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and publishing online a “ Citizens’ Independent...
November 16, 2011
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Together and Apart: My Life with Liu Xianbin—Dedicated to the Wives of all Dissidents
Translation by Human Rights in China
August 10, 2010
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To Live and Fight as a Person or as a Citizen! Trial Statement by Liu Xianbin
Translation and Abridgement by Human Rights in China Your Honor and Everyone Present: Today I stand trial before this court, not because I committed a heinous crime, but because I wanted to live as a person or as a citizen—because in these warped times, I had the misfortune of possessing honesty,...
March 25, 2011
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Liu Xianbin: A Chronology
October 2, 1968 Born in Suining, Sichuan Province. September 1987 Enrolled in the School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University in Beijing. April–June 1989
November 16, 2011
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About Liu Xianbin
November 16, 2011
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Xu Kun’s Appeal
[Beihai Baihutou Land Eviction Case] On April 29, 2011, the elected village chief, Xu Kun, was sentenced by the Yinhai District People’s Court to four years in prison and was fined 200,000 yuan (approximately US$30,800) on the charge of “illegal business activity.” Xu Kun appealed the sentence,...
May 4, 2011
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Xu Kun
Announcement: Collections of Liu Xiaobo Essays
A Collection of Essays by Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo, 2010 Chinese, Hardcover, 288 pages New Century Press ISBN 978-988-19430-4-0 From the Introduction:
January 26, 2011
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Liu Xiaobo
Justice for a Crippled Arm: The Case of Ruan Libing
A portrait of a young factory worker who sought fair compensation from the factory where he lost his hand. Ruan Libing (阮礼兵) is a 21-year-old worker from Hunan Province. His left hand was severed while he was operating a machine tool in a factory that produces home appliances. In March 2010 he came...
January 26, 2011
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