For the first time, these activists who survived the Tiananmen Square massacre reveal the kindness shown to them by the police and interrogators who were part of Beijing's crackdown.
Chen Tianshi has kept a secret for the past 32 years.
He was then incarcerated for a year in Beijing's maximum-security Qincheng Prison, along with many other student leaders.Interrogators sympathised with political prisonersBut he had a sense they understood the protesters' demands and sympathised with the students. After university, Mr Chen changed his first name from Zhangbao to Tianshi, because he feared the police could track him and he wanted a quieter life.
Although he still remembers the help of those two men, to this day he doesn't know their full names — their personal information was kept confidential from the prisoners in the jail.Wang Liling had tried to form a blockade to prevent tanks entering Tiananmen Square in 1989. The doctor advised her to go to her hometown, Chengdu, where she had a better chance to be treated with penicillin.
"Who dares to talk about this? If he's found to help a Tiananmen escapee, [the government] might even cancel his martyr merit," Ms Wang said, referring to an honour bestowed on those who have died in service in China.Sympathy for the political cause of the student activists within government ranks was not uncommon after 1989, according to Zhou Fengsuo, a prominent Tiananmen student leader who spent a year in Qincheng Prison with Mr Chen.
Zhou Fengsuo was a prominent Tiananmen student leader who spent a year in Qincheng Prison with Mr Chen.
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