Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that a concerted campaign is mounting in China for the release of former Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who was purged from his position and has been living under house arrest since the official crackdown against the Chinese Democracy Movement in June 1989.
“Zhao Ziyang is one of the giants of China’s reform movement,” said HRIC president Liu Qing. “He’s already lost his freedom for 15 years, and is an elderly man in poor health. It’s time...