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...authorities have also taken more time-honored steps, such as blocking foreign-television camera crews and photographers from entering the square and breaking up interviews with students about their attitudes to what happened in 1989, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China. What's more, the crackdown has not been confined to the capital. Dissidents hundreds of miles away have been rounded up or blocked from leaving their homes in the run-up to the anniversary, human-rights groups allege...
...recent visit of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi as an example of the changes China's rising influence in the world have brought about. Once so passionate a critic of the Chinese government that she unfurled a banner in Tiananmen commemorating the victims of the 1989 crackdown, Pelosi spent several days in China recently without discussing human rights in public...
...witness the events of that restless summer; he never saw hunger strikes or tanks in the streets. But, he says, he inherited the legacy of the attack on student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that left hundreds, if not thousands, dead. Twenty years after the crackdown, just shy of his 20th birthday, Fan embarked on a 64-hour fast of his own, setting up camp outside a busy shopping center in Hong Kong's Times Square, some 1,240 miles (2,000 km) from Beijing. As he stood in his small, blue booth flanked by fellow students, a gigantic...
...when the city's chief executive, Donald Tsang, recently downplayed the anniversary to legislators during a legislative council debate, he was met with fierce opposition and forced to apologize. When Ayo Chan, a student leader at Hong Kong University, suggested pro-democracy protesters were to blame for the 1989 crackdown, angry students moved to vote him out of office. And, unlike the uprising in Tiananmen Square 20 years ago, Fan's Times Square protest unfolded peacefully, unfettered by the government. Hong Kong people remember Tiananmen, and they cherish the fight it has come to represent. Tens of thousands said...
...Married a British professor and lived abroad until 1988, when she returned to Burma to care for her ailing mother and became a leading advocate for democracy and human rights amid a brutal crackdown by the nation's junta...