Dissidents detained in China

Chinese police have detained a pair of dissident intellectuals ahead of this week’s anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, a human rights monitoring group said today.

Dissidents detained in China
Sun, 02 Jun, 2002 - 12:45

Chinese police have detained a pair of dissident intellectuals ahead of this week’s anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, a human rights monitoring group said today.

Officers from the Beijing Public Security Bureau took Hua Huiqi and Liu Fenggang from their homes on Saturday morning, the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said.

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