Chinese Students in the West Call for Transparency Over Tiananmen Square

A group of Chinese students living in western countries has issued a rare public appeal for their government to end its secrecy over the Tiananmen Square massacre and hold those responsible to account.
The Guardian says the open letter is from 11 students enrolled at universities in the US, UK and Australia. The report points out that the letter is politically risky at a time of tightening government controls on activists and rights groups, from small charities and feminists to human rights lawyers who take on politically controversial cases.
It prompted an angry attack from the hardline nationalist paper The Global Times, which accused the authors of serving “overseas hostile forces” and trying to “tear society apart”.