Last Tiananmen Square prisoner jailed on counter-revolutionary charges freed

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

Chinese authorities have released the last prisoner convicted of "counter-revolutionary" charges in connection with the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

Jiang Yaqun, 73, who has Alzheimer's disease, was released from a Beijing prison without a home or family to go to, or a source of income, the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation said on Thursday, citing an undated notice posted on the website of Jingshan neighbourhood council.

Tuesday will mark the 24th anniversary of the day that Chinese soldiers quashed the largely student-led pro-democracy movement by opening fire on demonstrators, killing hundreds of people.

Fearing a crisis of legitimacy, China's ruling Communist party has since forbidden open discussion of the events of 4 June 1989 in classrooms, the media and online.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/31/tiananmen-square-prisoner-freed

[navarth]

1. How does the term 'counter-revolutionary' even apply any more over there?

In the New Capitalist China?

They wouldn't have so many of our jobs if the zillionaires hadn't shipped them over there BTW. Our own fault for watching American Idle instead of being aware. My 2 cents

[David__77]

2. They don't name that crime that anymore.

It is not "subversion of state power" or something like that. They recognized that "counterrevolutionary incitement" wasn't working anymore.