San Francisco and other cities across the U.S. have become the last line of defense against efforts by China to erase the memory of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Jiang Lin was born in Nanjing in 1953. She joined the People’s Liberation Army at the age of 14. Between 1971 and 1982, she served as a military officer at the Fourth Military Medical University (now the Air Force Medical University) in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced an activist to 15 months in prison for reportedly organizing an unauthorized vigil to commemorate those who lost their lives during a pro-democracy protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.