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'Tracked for life': China relentless in erasing Tiananmen

by Dake KangJoe McDONALD
| June 3, 2021 7:12 AM

BEIJING (AP) — The ruling Communist Party’s deadly 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests never ended for Fan Baolin, who served 17 years in prison and says he sneaked out of China last year to escape surveillance that included cameras trained on his apartment and pressure on his family to deter him from more activism.

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