The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

June Fourth (六四)

痛忆六四:华邮记者目睹成堆尸体 (Former Washington Post reporter recalls seeing piles of corpses after June 4th crackdown)
Voice of America, May 26, 2014
www.voachinese.com/content/southerland-20140526/1923101.html

Tiananmen comment eyed after professor’s microblog vanishes
The New York Times, May 26, 2014
sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/tiananmen-comment-eyed-after-professors-microblog-vanishes/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-share&_r=0

Academic unbowed 25 years after suppression of Chinese pro-democracy movement
South China Morning Post, May 27, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1520146/lawyer-journalist-and-academic-unbowed-25-years-after-suppression-chinese

Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary: the last prisoner of the protests
The Telegraph, May 26, 2014
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10856528/Tiananmen-Square-massacre-anniversary-the-last-prisoner-of-the-protests.html

六四25周年 王丹在台湾谈中国民主 (In Taiwan, 1989 student leader Wang Dan talks about democracy)
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 27, 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/indepth/2014/05/140527_64_taiwan_wangdan.shtml