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US calls on China to free all Tiananmen prisoners | The United States has called on China to release all prisoners
still detained after Beijing 's 1989 crackdown against protesters in Tiananmen
Square . The US State Department also called on China to 'provide a full public
accounting of those killed, detained or missing'. "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. According
to The BBC, Toner also called China 's 'violent suppression' of the Tiananmen
Square demonstrations a 'tragic loss of innocent lives'. In 1989 the army shot
dead hundreds of civilians rallying for democracy. China considers the June 1989
events a counter-revolutionary revolt and defends its response. 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.
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