but many of the young Tiananmen dissidents still languish in jails and they are no longer young. The World´s leaders are doing ´business as usual´ - or even greedier than usual - with the totalitarian regime in Beijing. The 2008 Olympics have been exploited to boost the Chinese government´s international reputation.
Simultaneously a series of Human Rights NGOs are striving to wake the world´s conscience, see below a collection of links.
Repression is looming large in China.
But it will not last for ever.