Who are China's political prisoners? A human rights assessment, 29 years after the Tiananmen Massacr

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Who are China's political prisoners? A human rights assessment, 29 years after the Tiananmen Massacre | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Written by Pong Lai

The 29th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations has passed. On June 4, 1989, Chinese army forces repeatedly opened fire on a student-led movement demanding freedom of expression and political reform away from corruption and single-party rule.

At the time, the Chinese Red Cross estimated that 2,700 civilians were killed, but other sources point to a much higher toll. A confidential US government document, revealed in 2014, reported that a Chinese internal assessment estimated that 10,454 civilians had died. Recently, a different report written by the then-British ambassador to China was declassified; it quotes a source from China’s State Council who said that the minimum estimation of civilians killed is 10,000.

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