Tiananmen Square Dissidents Trials (1990):
 Selected Links & Bibliography


Protesters fill Tiananmen Square (Reuters)

Beginning in April 1989, a series of mostly student-led demonstrations were held in Beijing's Tiananmen Square calling for political reform, civil rights, and economic freedom.  For seven weeks, the protests continued to grow in size.  On May 20, Communist Party authorities declared martial law and on June 4 the People's Liberation Army entered the square and squashed the protests with live bullets, killing hundreds (if not thousands) of protesters. Western governments strongly condemned the brutal crackdown. In late 1989, Chinese authorities arrested Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao, the two men they called the "black hands" of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.  Chen and Wang, who denied the allegations against them, were tried in 1990 and found guilty of all charges.  They were each sentenced to thirteen years in prison.

LINKS:

PBS: 'The Tank Man'
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/

'Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History'
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/index.html

Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

Liu Xiaobo (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo

Wang Dang (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Dan

Arrest and Trial of Chen Ziming and Wang Juntao (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_trial_of_Chen_Ziming_and_Wang_Juntao

"China's Criminal Justice System and the Trial of Pro-Democracy Dissidents"
http://cryptome.org/cn/tk/tiananmen-kill.htm *Contains some Graphic Images
http://salempress.com/store/samples/cold_war/cold_war_tiananmen.htm
http://tsquare.tv/



ARTICLES

Chicago Tribune (1/10/1991): '4 More Chinese Dissidents Put On Trial'
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-01-10/news/9101030446_1_tiananmen-square-counterrevolutionary-sabotage-paramount-leader-deng-xiaoping

CNN: Articles About Tiananmen Square by Date
http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/tiananmen-square/recent/2

NY Times (1/6/1991): '7 Sentenced in First Tiananmen Square Protest Trials'
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/06/world/7-sentenced-in-first-tiananmen-square-protest-trials.html

NY Times (12/18/1998): 'After Brief Trials, Outcome Uncertain for Dissidents in China'
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/18/world/after-brief-trials-outcome-uncertain-for-dissidents-in-china.html

NY Times (2/12/1991): 'Trial Starts for Tiananmen Dissident'
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/12/world/trial-starts-for-tiananmen-dissident.html

Human Rights Watch (6/1/2010): 'China: End June 1989 Massacre Denial, Free Dissidents'
http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/06/01/china-end-june-1989-massacre-denial-free-dissidents

http://www.ifex.org/china/2009/06/05/tiananmen20yearsrsfeng.pdf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/newsid_2496000/2496277.stm
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2011/06/us-urges-china-to-release-tiananmen-square-protesters.php
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/tiananmen-square-anniversary-political-dissidents_n_870954.html
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/To-commemorate-the-4-June-massacre,-China-arrests-other-dissidents-21737.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/18/world/china-frees-leading-1989-dissident-from-prison.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm


Wang Juntao, defendant in 1990 Tiananmen Square trial


BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Beja, Jean-Philippe. The Impact of China's 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. (Routledge, 2010)

Chiu, Hungdah. China's Criminal Justice System and the Trial of Pro-Democracy Dissidents. (School of Law, University of Maryland, 1992)

Knappman, Edward W. Great World Trials. (Visible Ink Press, 1997)

Mu, Yi and Mark V. Thompson. Crisis at Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China. (China Books & Periodicals, 1990)