Tag Archives: Tiananmen Square

• China ‘sentences three to death’ for Tiananmen attack 16 June 2014 | Felicia Sonmez This post has no comments yet

  Three people were sentenced to death Monday over a suicide car crash in Beijing's symbolic heart Tiananmen Square, state-run media said, in China's latest move against militants from East Turkistan. ...

• Dalai Lama marks Tiananmen anniversary, calls for democracy in China 5 June 2014 This post has no comments yet

  Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama marked the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing by urging China to embrace democracy and, offering prayers for the protest "martyrs". ...

• Hu Jintao takes personal charge of fight against Charter 08 7 January 2009 | Mark O'Neill This post has no comments yet

  There is little chance that the Chinese government can snuff out Charter 08, the most serious intellectual challenge to the Communist Party since the student-led protests of 1989, ...