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June 4, 2007

Dissidents mark Tiananmen Square anniversary

PROVIDENCE -- Forty exiled Chinese democracy leaders will gather in Providence today and tomorrow to launch an overseas branch of the China Democracy Party and commemorate the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Some of those attending the summit include survivors of the massacre.

Among those attending is Xu Wenli, a prominent Chinese dissident who was imprisoned for 16 years and who was granted asylum in the United States in 2002. He's now at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

The Chinese Democracy Party was founded inside China by Xu in 1998. It has been unable to hold public organizing meetings in China.

-- The Associated Press

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