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Eugene

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5. China Rejects US Call to Release Tiananmen Prisoners

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2012, 10:58 AM

Jun 2012

Source: Voice of America

China Rejects US Call to Release Tiananmen Prisoners

VOA News
June 04, 2012

China's foreign ministry has expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with a U.S. call for Beijing to free all those still imprisoned for the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

Foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told reporters that the U.S. State Department call was a gross intervention in China's internal affairs and a groundless accusation against the Chinese government.

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US urges China to free Tiananmen Square activists [View all] alp227 Jun 2012 OP

pot meet kettle... n/t Earth_First Jun 2012 #1

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"US urges" after 23 years? bahrbearian Jun 2012 #2

I note that the Western media don't refer to "massacre" any more - they say "crackdown." David__77 Jun 2012 #4

China Rejects US Call to Release Tiananmen Prisoners Eugene Jun 2012 #5