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Dates: during 1990-1990
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A court officer visited the Beijing home of Chen Ziming's elderly parents late last month and presented them with an official notice. A branch of the Beijing procuratorate court, the document said, has approved the formal arrest of Chen Ziming on charges of "inciting counterrevolutionary propaganda" and "subversion." A...
The official's visit was ominous, since Chen Ziming, 38, the former head of a private think tank, had been accused of being a key organizer of the Tiananmen Square protests that the government brutally crushed in June 1989. After the crackdown, Chen went underground with his wife and several...
Wang, like Chen, was formally charged last month with the same accusations. Charges of inciting counterrevolutionary agitation and propaganda have reportedly been -- or will soon be -- brought against at least nine other Tiananmen Square activists, including Wang Dan, 25, the Peking University student who helped set up the student forum...
Why did Beijing choose this particular moment to step up its prosecutions? One theory holds that Beijing's embattled leaders would like to close the book on the Tiananmen episode and turn their attention to more pressing domestic problems, such as the ailing Chinese economy and improvement of relations with...
Another possibility is that Beijing wants to avoid the embarrassment that would result if some of the dissidents were nominated as write-in candidates in the local People's Congress elections now under way. Yet another theory contends that recent diplomatic overtures from the West and the international preoccupation with...