Press Conference
Human Rights in China
Human Rights Watch
New York Academy of Sciences
Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars Tuesday, June 1, 1999 @ 11:00 a.m.
New School University
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street (btw 5th & 6th Avenues)
A group of June Fourth survivors is releasing new evidence of the crimes committed by martial law troops in the 1989 Beijing crackdown. The evidence includes detailed testimonies describing the killings and woundings of individuals, a list of the dead, and still photographs of victims. It provides the most detailed information ever gathered on the massacre. Ding Zilin, whose son was murdered on June 3, 1989, is leading a group of 105 survivors in initiating legal action to bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice. Further details of this unprecedented legal action will be announced at the press conference.
The press conference will feature audio messages from people inside China involved in this campaign. In addition, an exclusive video message from Bao Tong, the former adviser to Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, will be shown. Bao served seven years in prison for opposing the government's violent response to the students' demonstrations.
Speakers:
Wang Dan, student leader in 1989
Li Lu, student leader in 1989
Liu Qing, chairman, Human Rights in China
Zhang Liming, lost his sister on June 3
Huang Ciping, Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars
R.S.V.P. New York: Human Rights in China
