Tiananmen crackdown: Repression intensifies on eve of 25th anniversary

Headline Title: Tiananmen crackdown: Repression intensifies on eve of 25th anniversary 03 June 2014 On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Amnesty International has documented a further 30 activists that have been persecuted as the Chinese authorities attempt to suppress those that seek to commemorate the victims of 4 June 1989. Those targeted in the past few days include Luo Xi, who was a student activist in 1989, who has been criminally detained and Bao Tong, 81, a former political aide to the late Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang,…

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