China : Tiananmen - 11 years on and still no government inquiry: "forgotten prisoners"

Index Number: ASA 17/017/2000
Date Published: 30 April 2000
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

This document provides a brief background to the 1989 Pro-Democracy crackdown. Amnesty International holds records of 213 people who are still imprisoned or on medical parole for their activities in connection with the 1989 protests and a lsit of these people is attached.