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- ↑ The Washington Post: Yahoo Settles With Chinese Families.
- ↑ Radio of Center of Broadcast of Taiwan: Chinese government full-scale ban Collection of June Fourth Poems Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Collection of Human Right Poems
- ↑ Radio Taiwan International: Collection of Human Right Poems of June Fourth Heritage & Culture Association has been Banned in China Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Voice Of America-Chinese: Collection of Human Right Poems did not publish, but it has been banned in China
- ↑ Rights Defender Guo Feixiong Sentenced to 5 years in Prison Archived 2007-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Mocking a Constitution - The arrest of Du Daobin". Archived from the original on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
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- ↑ Russian or Chinese dissidents tipped for Nobel Peace Prize.