US urges China to free Tiananmen Square activists - BBC News
The US government has urged China to free all those still in prison 23 years after Beijing's 1989 crackdown against protesters in Tiananmen Square.
The US state department message also called on China to "provide a full public accounting of those killed, detained or missing".
Beijing consider the June 1989 events a counter-revolutionary revolt and defend their response.
In 1989 the army shot dead hundreds of civilians rallying for democracy.
"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," US state department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said.
He called China's "violent suppression" of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations a "tragic loss of innocent lives".
The authorities have made any discussion of the 1989 unrest taboo.
About 20 human rights activists were beaten up by police in the southeast province of Fujian on the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, AFP news agency reported, quoting Shi Liping, the wife of activist Lin Bingxing. The allegation was denied by Fujian police.
A human rights group, the Dui Hua Foundation, estimates that fewer than a dozen activists arrested in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown remain in jail. Hundreds were rounded up at the time.
Those left in jail are not students who led the protests but people who committed arson or attacked martial law troops, Dui Hua executive director John Kamm told the Associated Press.
RSS mouthpiece hits out at Narendra Modi - newsbullet.in
The article, which figures in the latest issue of 'Panchajanya,' says it is being felt that Modi needs to do a rethink about his style of functioning and organisational capabilities.
"The role of Narendra Modi in the Sanjay Joshi episode at BJP's national executive meeting in Mumbai is worth pondering over," the article states. Modi had insisted that he will attend the conclave only if his bete noire Sanjay Joshi resigns from BJP national executive. The party bowed to his demand.
The article further points out that it is a mystery why Modi, a staunch believer of the Sangh ideology, could not deal with his anger towards his fellow RSS worker Joshi.
"By making the presence of Sanjay Joshi at the BJP national executive a prestige issue, why did he (Modi) give the media an opportunity to spread misinformation about the Sangh and BJP?" the article said. In a dig at Modi's prime ministerial ambitions, the article also states that BJP has several chief ministers and central leaders who are capable of being its prime ministerial candidate and hence the decision on this matter should be made after the general elections.
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