Punishment Season: Human Rights in China After Martial Law

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Human Rights Watch, 1990 - 173 pages

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Page 108 - Industry University, who was head of the Organization Department of the Beijing Self-Government Union of College Students from Other Cities, recently turned himself in to public security organs and "confessed" to his activities in Beijing. (Beijing Domestic Service, 21 June, in FBIS, 21 June.) As of June 15, 16 members of outlawed student and worker organizations in Nanjing were reported to have turned themselves in to the authorities. Those named were: HUANG Yongxiang, a Standing Committee member...
Page 64 - National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger secretly met with Chinese leaders. When they again met the Chinese in December and revealed their earlier meeting, the Bush administration faced a storm of criticism for its policy of "constructive engagement" from opponents arguing that sanctions were needed.
Page 114 - In April 1989, while visiting the United States, he published an article entitled "Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals and Politics" in which he strongly criticized some of the older Chinese intellectuals.
Page 141 - Several of the other suspects also appeared to have suffered beatings." GAO Yunming, 31, was among 37 persons arrested in Shenyang on June 8, according to a Xinhua radio report broadcast on June 9. He was a worker in the Mutual Inductance Instrument Factory in Shenyang City and was one of eight out of the 37 who will be tried; the others will be released after re-education, according to the report. HUANG Jianhu, an assembly worker at the water meter plant of the Shanghai Water Company, was arrested...
Page 105 - July 3) Zhang had been expelled from the college on theft charges but stayed on campus and became head of the autonomous student union there. According to the radio, he went to Beijing and returned with reactionary propaganda material, made speeeches and orchestrated attacks on railway stations and the blocking of trains. He is among 151 persons from 18 illegal organizations arrested thus far in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and Jinhua.
Page 61 - I am convinced that the forces of democracy are going to overcome these unfortunate events in Tiananmen Square. On the commercial side, I don't want to hurt the Chinese people. I happen to believe that the commercial contacts have led, in essence, to this quest for more freedom. I think as people have commercial incentive, whether it's in China or in other totalitarian systems, the move to democracy becomes more inexorable.
Page 97 - Dejun, 25, was arrested in late July, 1989, in Benxi County, Liaoning Province on charges of "counterrevolutionary instigation," according to a report in Liaoning Ribao (July 20, 1989). Li, a teacher at Canhekou Peasants' Middle School in Benxi County, reportedly sent letters to 13 different colleges and universities and on May 18, 1989 put up a big-character poster at the Canhekou railroad station saying, "Support the petition of college student hunger strikers.
Page 100 - Committee, calling for the release of so-called "political prisoners.' Afterwards, a vast number of big and small-character posters and assemblies came out on the campuses of some universities in Beijing, attacking...
Page 103 - France Presse to have been arrested sometime during the week of July 10. The arrest has not yet been confirmed by official sources. Wang, 21, is a native of Yunnan and a student at the Central Institute of Nationalities in Beijing. He is a member of an ethnic minority. WANG...
Page 99 - Center and was a member of the Central Committee. He is identified with the reformist views of his mentor, Zhao Ziyang, but rejected Western-style democracy as Irrelevant" for China, according to an article in the /Irian Wall Street Journal (December 26, 1988).

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