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In 1983, I spent five weeks traveling around China with my family on our first visit to the country. In those days, less than a decade after the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution, people were still wary of speaking to foreigners. Although my young daughter and I attracted...
December 30, 2013
China Rights Forum
Testimony of You Weijie, widow of Yang Minghu
Yang Minghu , male, born February 1, 1947, killed at age 42; before his death, he was a staff member of the legal department of the patent section of the China Trade Promotion Commission; before dawn, at about 2:00am on June 4, 1989, he received a gunshot wound at Nanchizi that split his bladder...
January 31, 1999
HRIC Documentary on June Fourth Victims: Portraits of Loss and the Quest for Justice
Consisting of footage shot by the Tiananmen Mothers, a group of family members of those killed during the violent crackdown on the 1989 Democracy Movement, Portraits of Loss and the Quest for Justice presents the stories of six victims told by their family members, and of two survivors told by...
June 4, 2013
Press Work
Public Memorial for June Fourth Victims in Advance of the Qing Ming Festival
On April 1, 2013, in advance of the Qing Ming Festival, a group of independent intellectuals and participants in the 1989 Democracy Movement gathered in a funeral home in Zhengding County, Hebei Province, to pay respect to the victims of the government’s military crackdown on the Democracy Movement...
April 1, 2013
Citizens' Square
Passing the Torch of June Fourth: Demanding Accountability for the Past, Claiming a Democratic Future
In May-June 2009, in Hong Kong, students and artists in their late-teens and early-20s organized the P-at-Riot: June Fourth Festival for the Post-80s Generation (80後六四文化祭)—a cultural festival commemorating the 1989 Democracy Movement in China and paying tribute to the victims of the subsequent...
December 21, 2012
China Rights Forum
An Appeal to Chinese Government to Release Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia—Global Signature Campaign
Attachment 1 Announcement of a December 8, 2012 press conference and seminar in Flushing, New York City, organized by “Friends of Liu Xiaobo,” to launch a global campaign to obtain the release of Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia. Attachment 2 A letter of support for the campaign from Ding Zilin, a...
December 4, 2012
Public Appeal
Liu Xia
The Poverty of China’s Civil Opposition: On the 13th Anniversary of June Fourth
May 14, 2002 [English translation by Human Rights in China]
November 30, 2012
China Rights Forum
Liu Xiaobo
Open Letter from Chinese Students Abroad to Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping in Advance of the 18th Party Congress
[Original Chinese posted online on May 30, 2012, on China in Perspective ]
July 3, 2012
China Rights Forum
Open Letter from Ding Zilin to Chai Ling
At the request of Ding Zilin, a spokesperson for the Tiananmen Mothers, Human Rights in China is releasing an open letter entitled “ To Chai Ling—A Belated Open Letter Response .” HRIC has translated the letter into English (see below). On June 4, 2012, Chai Ling posted online an op-ed piece in...
June 29, 2012
Press Work
Ding Zilin
Shanghai rights activists’ public appeal: “Remember June Fourth” (Chinese only with pictures)
[Remember June Fourth] On the 23rd anniversary of the crackdown of the 1989 Democracy Movement, four Shanghai petitioners publicly commemorated the June Fourth Tiananmen Massacre by holding placards on People’s Square in the center of Shanghai.
June 4, 2012
Citizens' Square

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