HRIC urges the Chinese authorities to provide explanation for Wu’s detention and immediately and unconditionally release him, as well as lift the surveillance and the travel ban on other dissidents and rights defenders. In suppressing rather than answering those who appeal for redress and justice for June Fourth victims on the eve of the 20th anniversary of a national tragedy, the Chinese government is not only squandering a unique opportunity to express its goodwill toward the Chinese people, but also deepening the wounds left by that tragedy. For more information on June Fourth and the Tiananmen Mothers, see: