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Hundreds of activists were arrested and taken to secret prisons as authorities thwarted planned demonstrations to remember pro-democracy campaigners who were gunned down near Tiananmen Square in China 23 years ago.

The United States has called on authorities in China to release all prisoners who are still being held for their participation in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and do more to protect the universal human rights of its citizens.

Meeting of the Human Rights Council Special Session on Syria.

City centre in Chisinau, Moldova

On this the twenty-third anniversary of the violent suppression by Chinese authorities of the spring 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, the United States joins the international community in remembering the tragic loss of innocent lives.

Meeting of the Human Rights Council Special Session on Syria.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says they do not exist. And in Iran, merely trying to be themselves is a crime that brings shame on their families. But now, Iranian homosexuals are starting to speak out about what it means to be gay and about the lengths to which they have gone to escape persecution.

A woman watches children working at a stone quarry, Zambia, in March 2007.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has given his consent to the National Human Rights Commission Act, clearing the way for the formation of an independent body to protect and promote human rights in the country.