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June 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The US statement made no specific mention of accounts from rights campaigners
that Chinese police beat and detained political activists Sunday as they
marked the anniversary of the crackdown by the People’s Liberation Army.
Officers used violence against activists in the southeast province of Fujian
and detained them, while more than 30 people who came to Beijing “to
petition” were held and then forced to return home, the campaigners
reported.
But on the heels of a major diplomatic row over blind Chinese dissident Chen
Guangcheng, who is now living in the United States after fleeing house
arrest, Washington urged Beijing to stop harassing human rights activists.
“We renew our call for China to protect the universal human rights of
all its citizens; release those who have been wrongfully detained,
prosecuted, incarcerated, forcibly disappeared, or placed under house
arrest; and end the ongoing harassment of human rights activists and their
families,” Mr Toner said.
In Beijing, veteran dissident Hu Jia said on his microblog that, as in
previous years on the Tiananmen anniversary, police had stepped up security
around the homes of numerous political activists and social critics.
Rights activists and lawyers said police had also contacted them and warned
against participating in activities marking the crackdown.
Any mention of the 1989 protests is banned in Chinese state media, and the
subject is largely taboo in China.
The overseas dissident website had in
recent days urged those opposed to the crackdown to dress in black and “stroll”
in public places throughout China on June 3-4.
The call, which spread via numerous microblogs, was similar to posts last year
urging Chinese to hold protests akin to those that spread through the Arab
world.
The Tiananmen Mothers, a group of relatives of victims of the 1989 crackdown,
issued an annual open letter to the government calling for the end of
communist rule and a reassessment of the official verdict on the protests.
“So long as the Tiananmen Mothers exist, our struggle for justice will
not cease,” said the letter, signed by 121 members.
The only open commemoration of the crackdown to be allowed on Chinese soil
will take place in Hong Kong, a Chinese territory that enjoys freedoms not
allowed in the mainland.
Organisers say they expect more than 150,000 people to join a candlelight
vigil to mark the anniversary.
SOurce: agencies
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