Tang Baiqiao, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Chinese political dissident at Tiananment square
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Place of Birth: Hunan, China
About Tang Baiqiao
- Tang Baiqiao (Chinese: ???; born 11 August 1967, Yongzhou; sometimes spelled Tang Boqiao) is a Chinese political dissident from Hunan province who led student protests during the 1989 democracy movement.
- After the incident at Tiananmen Square, Tang fled from agents of the Communist Party of China who eventually arrested him in the city of Jiangmen.
- He was charged with being a counter-revolutionary and imprisoned.
- Upon his release, he fled to Hong Kong, where he co-authored the report Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province 1989 - 1992 through Human Rights Watch with Dr.
- Robin Munro of the University of London.
- Tang was later accepted into the United States as a political refugee in 1992.
- Tang claimed that he graduated in 2003 with a Master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University, but university archive and registrar of Columbia University claimed that he studied there but did not graduate.
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