The New York Times

Thursday, October 28, 1999

China Is Expected to Try 2

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING -- Chinese authorities will soon try two former leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests for trying to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the military crackdown that ended the protests, a human rights group said Wednesday.

Jiang Qisheng will go on trial on Monday in Beijing on charges of "inciting the overthrow of state power," the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said.

He was arrested in May after he called for candles to be lighted to remember those killed in 1989.

The center said another 1989 student leader, Yang Tao, who sought to commemorate the crackdown, was arrested in May and would be tried soon in Guangzhou.