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Jonathan Mirsky

Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (right) speaks to journalists outside a Chinese courthouse on December 28, 2012. China has detained Pu, a prominent human rights lawyer, after he attended a meeting that urged a probe into the bloody suppression of pro-democracy

This is a 25th anniversary China’s leaders want to forget

The Chinese government has been cracking down on dissenters ahead of the 25th anniversary of the violent suppression of protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989.The Chinese government has been cracking down on dissenters ahead of the 25th anniversary of the violent suppression of protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989.