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20th Tiananmen Commemoration
Remembrance and Truth
June 4, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Capitol Hill, West Lawn
Washington, DC

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Thursday, May 12, 2009 8:57 AM
By David Abel, Globe Staff
For the second time in less than a year, Chinese dissident and Harvard fellow Yang Jianli was refused entry into his native country.
His latest effort to enter Hong Kong was stymied Saturday night, he said in a telephone [...]

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Color China Photo via AP File
Factory workers occupy an office after smashing equipment at the Kaida toy factory over a labor dispute in Dongguan, east China’s Guangdong province, on Nov. 24, 2008.
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
updated 2:43 a.m. ET, Tues., Jan. 13, 2009
BEIJING - For months, the Communist Party had been able to deflect anger about factory [...]

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From Times Online
December 9, 2008
Jane Macartney, Beijing
A leading dissident who organised hundreds of Chinese thinkers, academics and writers to sign a charter calling for dramatic democratic and legal reforms was under arrest today.
Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic first jailed for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, was taken from his Beijing home late [...]

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12-09-2008
Issued by Initiatives for China
Contact: Jim Geheran
Tel: 202-290-1423
initiatives4china@gmail.com
www.initiativesforchina.org
On December 8th, 2008, famous Beijing dissidents Liu Xiaobo and Zhang Zuhua were placed under criminal detention by the Beijing Police Department. Both Liu and Zhang’s houses and properties were searched and confiscated with ruthless violence. This happened on the 60-year anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human [...]

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China Aid Association October 3, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Congressional letter spearheaded by leadership of the 62-member U.S.-China Working Group (USCWG) was sent to China’s Ambassador to the U.S., Zhou Wenzhong, voicing concerns over reports of a post-Olympic crackdown by the Chinese government planned for October.
ChinaAid released a report in August regarding the crackdown after [...]

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By John Markoff
International Herald Tribune
Thursday, October 2, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO: A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
The system tracks text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese [...]

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