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Chinese censors remove protest site Sitong Bridge from online maps
Amid usual scrubbing for Tiananmen Square anniversary, searches for bridge where protest was held in 2022 retu…
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Tiananmen Square books removed from Hong Kong libraries in run-up to anniversary
Publications targeted include those about protest and subjects Beijing deems politically sensitiveBooks about …
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Doctor who exposed China’s cover-up of Sars crisis dies aged 91
Dr Jiang Yanyong revealed true extent of 2003 outbreak and was put under house arrest for denouncing Tiananmen…
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Hong Kong court jails Tiananmen anniversary vigil organisers
Prosecutors said Chow Hang-Tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were under foreign influence but refused to…
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Bao Tong, former top aide of Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, dies at 90
Senior Communist party official jailed over Tiananmen democracy movement became one of party’s most vociferous…
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Li Jiaqi: Chinese influencer’s career hangs in balance after ‘tank cake’ stream
Social media star’s broadcast cut short after appearance of dessert thought to reference 1989 Tiananmen Square…
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Chinese star taken offline after showing ‘tank cake’ on Tiananmen anniversary
Li Jiaqi, a blogger with millions of fans, had his live stream abruptly cut on Friday, and has posted nothing …
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Candles, flags and a howl of pain: Taiwan remembers Tiananmen
Taipei takes on the role of commemoration from Hong Kong as the only Chinese-speaking country to hold vigilsOn…
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Arrests in Hong Kong as world marks Tiananmen Square anniversary
Authorities try to stamp out any public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of massacreHong Kong authorities…
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Hundreds gather in Taiwan to mark Tiananmen Square anniversary
Activists erect new version of commemorative statue that Hong Kong university removed last yearHundreds of peo…
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Tiananmen anniversary: US hails the ‘brave’ 33 years on as Hong Kong warns against gatherings
US ‘will not forget June 4’, says Blinken, while Taiwain set to be only part of Chinese-speaking world where p…
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Hong Kong police warn Tiananmen anniversary gatherings will break the law
Hong Kong has commemorated 1989 crackdown for decades, but national security law imposed in 2020 has put a sto…
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Hong Kong churches drop Tiananmen tributes after 33 years amid arrest fears
Concerns of breaching security law prompt cancellation of services that were among last ways to publicly mark …
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Hong Kong university covers up Tiananmen memorial slogan
Hoardings erected around ‘martyrs slogan’ painted across bridge at University of Hong KongA Hong Kong universi…
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‘Atmosphere of fear’: Hong Kong students lament loss of Tiananmen statues
Staff and students say the recent destruction of massacre monuments is a manifestation of a new and uneasy cul…