Miao Deshun : Prisoner Tiananmen last ? Presumably still alive and skinny like a skeleton body in Chinese prisons

Remembering Tiananmen Chinese history became a black dot

In protest of 1989, several tanks burned

Miao Deshun : Prisoner Tiananmen last ? Presumably still alive and skinny like a skeleton body in Chinese prisons

When the silent streets and the shooting had stopped after clashes between demonstrators and the army in June 1989 , the Chinese government began arresting people suspected criminals . A lot of people have been arrested and released , but 1,600 people received prison sentences formal .

Now , the person who allegedly lived in that era and was sentenced to remain behind bars .

BBC in China , Celia Hatton , said he could not find a picture of the prisoner but he knows his name : Miao Deshun .

Deshun was a factory worker from Beijing , he was accused on charges of intentionally burning by throwing a basket towards a burning tank .

Of these offenses, he was sentenced to death , later commuted to life.

Miao will not be released until 15 September 2018 .
" He was a quiet man . He is often depressed , " recalled Dong Shengkun , a former Tiananmen prisoner who had shared a prison cell with Miao Deshun .

All interviewees mention the BBC and Miao know he is very skinny , almost a skeleton .

" I was chained but he did not . Warden says he may think he is too skinny to be chained . , Who will not be able to walk with the weight of the chain , " said Dong .

Life or death ?
Beijing Bureau of Corrections refused to answer questions about the Miao Deshun and say they never serve questions from foreign journalists .

However Dui Hua , a U.S. based organization that advocates for prisoners' rights said the possibility Miao China is the sole custody of the Tiananmen events .

Of course Miao Deshun may have died in prison a long time and the news about it yet surfaced .

Bureau of Corrections would only confirm the status of prisoners to the family .

But assume Miao Deshun still alive , why he stayed in jail long after many others were released ?

According traces of other prisoners , Miao refused to sign the letter contains a statement of regret for involvement in the Tiananmen protests .

He also refused to work and chose to spend his time with reading the newspaper in the cell .

The world 's first museum dedicated to the pro - democracy protests in Tiananmen Square , Beijing in 1989 has opened in Hong Kong .
Managers expect the opening of this museum can attract a lot of visitors from the Chinese mainland .

Protests in Tiananmen incident that killed hundreds of people are still a taboo topic in China , but Hong Kong's government is running under a more liberal system .

The new museum is located in the district of Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong and opened after years of planning and fundraising by pro- democracy activists .

In recent weeks , the museum itself has sparked controversy , says the BBC's Juliana Liu reports from Hong Kong .
Another occupant of the same building wanted the museum was closed because of security concerns , our correspondent says .

But the museum 's supporters believe that the denial of the protest was deliberately set by Communist Party officials .

In 1989 , peaceful protests by students and workers that lasted for weeks after the bloody ending government sent tanks and soldiers .

When that Beijing considers the protests as revolt "counter - revolutionary " .

Click the warning of these events will be entering its 25th year on 3-4 June.

Chinese authorities have never released until now the number of dead officially .BBC