27 Feb 2013

More than 140 Nobel laureates led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged China on Wednesday to release Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a rights activist jailed for subversion since 2009.

5:08PM
17 Jan 2013

I hope Yang's memoirs will be published soon as it will help the public look into the whole [June 4] incident

Tiananmen dissident Wang Dan on the death of military strongman Yang Baibing...

5:10AM
3 Aug 2012

Tiananmen Square dissident Wang Dan made an unexpected 'visit' to Hong Kong yesterday after years of being barred from the city, as his Taiwan-bound flight was forced to land by Typhoon Saola....

10:54PM
31 May 2012

Hongkongers still feel strongly that those at fault in the Tiananmen crackdown should be made accountable - a reason why next Monday's anniversary vigil will likely draw more people than last year...

4:15PM
24 Sep 2011

Wang Dan, a former leader of the mainland pro-democracy movement, plans to have a family reunion with his parents in Taiwan - possibly late next month.

8:19PM

The Facebook account of exiled dissident Wang Dan was closed for over three hours yesterday, a few hours after he commented on the arrest of Ai Weiwei. Wang said his page was closed at about 2pm...

7:17AM

Tiananmen Square was sealed off last night as Beijing police sought to smother any commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the bloody June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

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11:43PM

Some of the exiled leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are planning activities to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown next year. They have pledged to investigate...

8:36AM

Beijing should allow former Tiananmen Square activists living in exile overseas to resettle on the mainland as it had been almost 20 years since the crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement...

5:25AM

Exiled Tiananmen Square student leader Wang Dan yesterday renewed his call for the central government to allow him to return to the mainland, saying his rights should be upheld now that he was...

6:51AM

The issue of air pollution at next year's Beijing Olympics is being blown out of proportion, a former top mainland triathlete said in Hong Kong yesterday.

6:38AM

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