Tag: China Human Rights

LIVE NOW: House Speaker, Committee on CCP Hold Roundtable to Mark Tiananmen Square Massacre

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Chairman of the Select Committee on China Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), and other congressional members hold a roundtable meeting at 5:30 p.m. ET on June 5 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre and the fight for freedom in China. …


House Speaker, Committee on CCP Hold Roundtable to Mark Tiananmen Square Massacre

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Chairman of the Select Committee on China Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), and other congressional members hold a roundtable meeting at 5:30 p.m. ET on June 5 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre and the fight for freedom in China. …


IN-DEPTH: China Manipulates UN Human Rights System to Further Its Agenda, Experts Say

China’s communist regime is increasingly subverting procedures and norms related to human rights at global forums, including the United Nations, intending to advance its agenda and minimize scrutiny of its violations, according to experts and advocates. “Beijing will continue to write its own narratives, including on human rights, by framing a new order as she…


Dissidents Change Tack, Call on People of Justice to Overthrow the CCP

Dissidents gathering to remember the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the fourth anniversary of Hong Kongers’ resistance have called on the forces of justice, both inside and outside China, to overthrow the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) dictatorship. This is a step away from their previous rallies, which called on the CCP itself to…


China Tightens Access to Tiananmen Square, 32 Detained in Hong Kong on Anniversary of 1989 Massacre

BEIJING—China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military massacre of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, eight people, including activists…


‘A Symbol of Defiance’: Memory of Tiananmen Square Massacre Kept Alive by Advocates

Then-five-year-old Hu Yang was too young to be part of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square that would later be violently crushed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) using tanks and guns. But that hasn’t stopped him from trying to keep its memory alive. In front of a local government building in his hometown, the…


China Tightens Access to Tiananmen Square, 24 Detained in Hong Kong on Anniversary of 1989 Protests

BEIJING—China tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sunday, the anniversary of the military suppression of 1989 pro-democracy protests that left a still unknown number of people dead and discussions and commemorations forbidden within the country. In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, eight people, including activists…


New Tiananmen Museum Opens in New York Ahead of June 4 Anniversary

NEW YORK—The hope for a “free China” lives on in a new Manhattan museum dedicated to the Chinese communist regime’s 1989 suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations around Tiananmen Square, exhibit organizers said on Thursday ahead of the 34th anniversary of the massacre. The June 4th Memorial Museum in New York will be the only such permanent…


Senators Oh and Woo Ramp Up Efforts Against Foreign Agent Registry in Canada Calling It Anti-Chinese

Senators Yuen Pau Woo and Victor Oh have ramped up efforts against enacting a foreign agent registration act as the Canadian government considers the legislation to combat foreign influence. Both senators brought up the issue again at a conference that marked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Immigration Act, held at the Splendid China Mall…


‘Keep Ideals Alive’: Washington Vigil Pays Tribute to Chinese Students Killed in Tiananmen Square Massacre

WASHINGTON—A Chinese man stood quietly by himself at the Victim of Communism Memorial at dusk on June 2. It’s that time of the year again. A candlelight vigil commemorating the students who died in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, was about to start. A survivor of the Chinese student democracy movement that ended with…