カテゴリー: Tiananmen Square protests 1989
Publications targeted include those about protest and subjects Beijing deems politically sensitiveBooks about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Hong Kong protest movements, and other subjects deemed politically sensitive by Beijing have been removed from …
Dr Jiang Yanyong revealed true extent of 2003 outbreak and was put under house arrest for denouncing Tiananmen Square massacreA military surgeon who exposed the Chinese government’s cover-up of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic 20 y…
Prosecutors said Chow Hang-Tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were under foreign influence but refused to say who it wasA Hong Kong court has jailed three former members of a group that organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square cra…
Senior Communist party official jailed over Tiananmen democracy movement became one of party’s most vociferous criticsBao Tong, the most senior Chinese Communist party official jailed over the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement, has died four days after …
Li Jiaqi, a blogger with millions of fans, had his live stream abruptly cut on Friday, and has posted nothing sinceOne of China’s top bloggers has gone silent after livestreaming footage of a cake apparently shaped like a tank just before the anniversa…
Taipei takes on the role of commemoration from Hong Kong as the only Chinese-speaking country to hold vigilsOn a steamy summer’s night several hundred people gathered at the foot of Taipei’s grand Chiang Kai-shek memorial for one of dozens of vigils be…
Authorities try to stamp out any public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of massacreHong Kong authorities on Saturday detained several people as they pounced on any attempt at public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown…
Activists erect new version of commemorative statue that Hong Kong university removed last yearHundreds of people have gathered in Taipei to commemorate China’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 33 years ago.A heavy security …
US ‘will not forget June 4’, says Blinken, while Taiwain set to be only part of Chinese-speaking world where public commemorations permittedThe victims of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square 33 years a…
Hong Kong has commemorated 1989 crackdown for decades, but national security law imposed in 2020 has put a stop to annual vigilsHong Kong police have warned that people risk breaking the law if they gather on Saturday to commemorate China’s Tiananmen S…
Concerns of breaching security law prompt cancellation of services that were among last ways to publicly mark China’s 1989 crackdownFor the first time in 33 years, church services to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown will not be held in Hong K…
Hoardings erected around ‘martyrs slogan’ painted across bridge at University of Hong KongA Hong Kong university has covered up a painted slogan commemorating China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, the latest instance of a public 4 June memorial being rem…
Staff and students say the recent destruction of massacre monuments is a manifestation of a new and uneasy culture on campusSophie Mak, a recent graduate of law and literature, had walked past the fiery orange monument between classes for five years. A…