An Internet activist has been forced to move home twice after revealing China's first known case of government compensation for a family of a Tiananmen pro-democracy massacre victim, a report said yesterday.
Huang Qi (黃琦) revealed on his Web site that a southwestern city government paid 70,000 yuan (US$8,750) in April to a woman whose 15-year-old son was killed in the suppression of a local pro-democracy protest 17 years ago.
Huang and his wife were ordered to move twice in the past month by his landlords who acted after police pressure and ahead of tomorrow's anniversary of the crackdown, according to Hong Kong-based Ming Pao newspaper.
On Thursday, his latest landlord, accompanied by police, asked him to move within 10 days, even though Huang had just signed a two-year lease agreement last month, the daily said.
Huang was released in June last year after serving a five-year prison sentence for running a Web site which criticized government corruption and the suppression of rights, and for helping families of Tiananmen victims.
Meanwhile, the "Unknown Rebel" who famously stood up to a column of tanks during the demonstrations is rumored to be living in Taiwan, where he reportedly settled in 1993.
The Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times quoted a Hong Kong-based professor who spoke on condition of anonymity as saying that the "tank man" was Wang Weilin (王維林), an adviser to the National Palace Museum.
However, the National Palace Museum late last night denied that Wang was employed there.
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