41. They have further winnowed an already small democracy movement and sent a chill through what opposition remains. 42. This past weekend, China gave early release to Wang Dan, a leader of the Chinese democracy movement before Tiananmen Square. 43. Thousands of Hong Kong Chinese travel to Beijing to take part in the Tiananmen Square democracy movement. 44. Wang was convicted on a charge of trying to raise funds abroad to support dissidents in China who have lost jobs because of their association with the democracy movement. 45. While Tiananmen marked the end of the student-led democracy movement in China, it also marked the end of the Chinese Communist dictatorship as we knew it. 46. Williams understandably makes the democracy movement and the brutal government crackdown the climactic point of her film. 47. Xu and many of his colleagues in the democracy movement are hedgehogs, with their minds focused laserlike on their quest and a determination that transcends bravery. 48. Previous attempts by exiles to unite dissidents at home have ended in arrests and further divisions among the splintered democracy movement. 49. Actions against the democracy movement include closing universities, forced labor and the relocation of thousands of people. 50. Actions against a democracy movement have included closure of universities, forced labor and the relocation of thousands of people. |
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