"Tiananmen Mothers" Website Blocked in China


"Tiananmen Mothers" Website Blocked in China
Human Rights in China strongly condemns the Chinese government's block of the Tiananmen Mothers' website (http://www.tiananmenmother.org/) within China just hours after its launch on May 28.

"This censorship on the eve of the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, reflects the government's hard-line rejection of the Tiananmen Mothers' reasonable and wholly justified demands for justice, including direct dialogue between the government, victims and their families," said Human Rights in China Executive Director Sharon Hom. "If the authorities continue to cover up the truth of the events of 19 years ago, how can the international community trust in official reports on the Sichuan earthquake, or the government's human rights and Olympics promises?" The Tiananmen Mothers is an organization of family members of the victims of the violent 1989 crackdown, carried out by the Chinese military on June 3-4 of that year. The Tiananmen Mothers send appeals every year to China's leaders, the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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