Tag: Tiananmen Square

Last week, Human Rights in China reported that pro-democracy activists Chen Wei and Yu Shiwen were formally arrested following their detention two months ago and charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" for holding small gatherings to commemorate the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Chinese pro-democracy activists charged with ‘picking quarrels’ for commemorating Tiananmen Square massacre

Blake Seitz · July 7, 2014 7:20 pm

Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong Wednesday June 4, 2014, to mark the 25th anniversary of the June 4th Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Mourning, tight security on Tiananmen anniversary

Gillian Wong · June 4, 2014 6:58 pm

Chinese dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng spoke Tuesday about the stagnant progress of human rights in the country where he was born, and from which he was forced to flee in 2012. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Blind political dissident to U.S. officials: Demand human rights in China

Blake Seitz · June 4, 2014 1:40 pm

White House hails Tiananmen Square protesters

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 6:49 am

FILE - In this June 4, 1989 file photo, a rickshaw driver peddles wounded people, with the help of bystanders, to a nearby hospital in Beijing after they were injured during clashes with Chinese soldiers in Tiananmen Square. The crackdown ended a period of relative political openness, led to the downfall of Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang and plunged Beijing into diplomatic isolation that lasted until the late 1990s. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File)

AP WAS THERE: Troops storm Tiananmen Square

John Pomfret · June 3, 2014 3:54 pm

A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Boulevard in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The man, calling for an end to the recent violence and bloodshed against pro-democracy demonstrators, was pulled away by bystanders, and the tanks continued on their way. The Chinese government crushed a student-led demonstration for democratic reform and against government corruption, killing hundreds, or perhaps thousands of demonstrators in the strongest anti-government protest since the 1949 revolution. Ironically, the name Tiananmen means "Gate of Heavenly Peace". (AP Photo/Jeff Widener)

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Congressional leaders commemorate Tiananmen massacre as China cracks down on democracy activists

Blake Seitz · May 29, 2014 9:14 pm

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Sarah Silverman: Unborn babies are just ‘goo’

Melissa Quinn · May 28, 2014 6:23 pm