Scholars, lawyers, and June 4 activists gather at a forum in Beijing, May 10.
On May 10 in Beijing, 19 prominent scholars, lawyers, and activists gathered at a forum to discuss the events of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen square crackdown. The forum was the first to be held in the 20 years since China’s military crushed the student-led pro-democracy movement.
Attendees included China Social Science Academy researcher Xu Youyu, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Guangming Daily Xu Xiao, and “Si Junzi Square” Zhou Duo. Discussions focused on the relationship between the government response to the incident and China’s subsequent economic boom. In the week following the forum, several of the attendees were summoned by police for questioning.
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