Charter 08

SPEECH by Dr. Yang Jianli Geneva, March 15, 2011 Good afternoon fellow delegates and distinguished guests. Thank you for the opportunity to address you here today. I am compelled to begin with a call for a moment of silence for the Japanese people, whose unimaginable...

Yang Jianli, the world-renowned Chinese dissident and survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, will join other former prisoners of conscience March 15-16 for the third annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.  Dr. Yang, who served a five-year jail...

Taipei Times Taiwan, Feb 25, 2011 By Loa Iok-sin  /  Staff Reporter Despite attempts by Internet users in China to organize anti-government demonstrations similar to the “Jasmine Revolution” in north Africa and the Middle East, exiled Chinese dissident Yang Jianli...

South China Morning Post by: Verna Yu Jan 01, 2011 Yang Jianli was a PhD student in the US when the Tiananmen democracy movement broke out in 1989. Keen to participate, he went back and witnessed the June 4 crackdown. He said that was "a point of no return" in his...