"Tiananmen Square" is not mentioned in Chinese school books. Nearly a million protesters in 1989 gathered for about 3 weeks at that square in Beijing to demonstrate for greater democracy. The government deployed military troops who killed and arrested thousands.
(most famous photo of Tiananmen Square demonstration)
It was not safe to dissent from government policy in 1989, and it's still unsafe.
Li Baiguang, Christian human rights lawyer until just days ago, "represented illegally arrested pastors and farmers who had been forcibly evicted from their land. He also educated pastors and farmers about their legal rights."
He attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. on Feb. 8 this year, but on Feb. 26 he entered People's Liberation Army Hospital in Nanjing - and died there. Doctors said the cause of death was liver failure, though he had appeared healthy and was a non-drinker.
Bob Fu, a student leader at Tiananmen Square in 1989 who took refuge in the U.S., now brings "international attention to China’s gross human rights violations and promote[s] religious freedom and rule of law in China." Mr. Fu says that Li was murdered by the Communist Chinese authorities.
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