About 100 June 4 Prisoners Said to Remain in Chinese Jails
By Stephanie Ho
Beijing
VOA
04 June 2008
On the 19th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown on demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square, human rights groups are highlighting the plight of the approximately 100 people they estimate to remain in jail in China for their activities in 1989. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing.
The estimates of the number of Chinese people still in prison for their activities in 1989 range from 50 to 200.
John Kamm, whose San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation tracks political prisoners in China, says the list of so-called June 4 prisoners includes people all over the country.
"There's a fellow called Liu Zhihua, in Hunan," said . He's the last of a group of workers that organized one of the largest worker strikes in 1989, at the Xiangtan Electrical Machinery Factory. Leader Chen Gang, everyone else, has been released. He's still in. There's a peasant in Guizhou, by the name of Hu Xinghua, Miao nationality, set up something called the Chinese People's Solidarity Party. He's still in."
Kamm's organization and other human rights groups are calling on the Chinese government to release people put in jail for their 1989 activities, as a goodwill gesture before the Beijing Olympics in August.
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Beijing
VOA
04 June 2008
On the 19th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown on demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square, human rights groups are highlighting the plight of the approximately 100 people they estimate to remain in jail in China for their activities in 1989. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing.
The estimates of the number of Chinese people still in prison for their activities in 1989 range from 50 to 200.
John Kamm, whose San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation tracks political prisoners in China, says the list of so-called June 4 prisoners includes people all over the country.
"There's a fellow called Liu Zhihua, in Hunan," said . He's the last of a group of workers that organized one of the largest worker strikes in 1989, at the Xiangtan Electrical Machinery Factory. Leader Chen Gang, everyone else, has been released. He's still in. There's a peasant in Guizhou, by the name of Hu Xinghua, Miao nationality, set up something called the Chinese People's Solidarity Party. He's still in."
Kamm's organization and other human rights groups are calling on the Chinese government to release people put in jail for their 1989 activities, as a goodwill gesture before the Beijing Olympics in August.
(Continued here.)
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