Wary China keeps close watch as Tiananmen anniversary arrives

By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Twenty-five years ago, Wang Nan took his camera and headed out to Beijing's Tiananmen Square, where tens of thousands of people had gathered calling for democratic reforms. As his 77-year-old mother, Zhang Xianling, prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of her son's death, she is under around-the-clock surveillance by eight police and security officers. As early as April, police officers barred foreign journalists, including Reuters reporters, from visiting her home. What is there to be afraid of?" The Chinese Communist Party's harshest crackdown on political dissent in recent years would suggest plenty.

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