A ‘Modern-Day Knight’ Who Helped Fleeing Tiananmen Activists

Chan Tat Ching, 70, is a small-business man in Hong Kong. But 25 years ago, he created an underground lifeline to freedom for Chinese fugitives escaping the Tiananmen Square crackdown. [Source]

Publication Date: Friday, 6 June 2014 at 08:28:29

Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Demonstrations, Protests, and Riots

Topics: Tiananmen, crackdown, Square, escaping, fugitives, Chinese, freedom, lifeline, underground, created, years, small-business, Ching, Activists, Fleeing, Helped, Knight’, ‘Modern-Day

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