カテゴリー: Tiananmen Square protests 1989
Student unions should keep their memory alive, writes Peter van den DungenThe ruthless campaign by the Chinese government to extinguish all memories of the massacre at Tiananmen Square has now resulted in the removal of the sculpture from the campus of…
A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen Square killings was boarded up by workers. Drilling sounds and loud clanging could be heard coming from the boarded-up site, which was patrolled by guards, as workers barricaded …
Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong Kong’s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where…
Lai and seven other democracy campaigners handed prison sentences for commemorating victims of massacreThe Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to up to 14 months in prison for organising, taking …
Streaming channel went live this month, but without an episode in which the family visit ChinaAn episode of the Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is absent from Disney’s streaming channel in Hong Kong, at a time when …
Jens Galschiot wants to bring sculpture back after decades in Hong Kong but fears arrest under national security lawThe Danish sculptor of a statue that commemorates pro-democracy protesters killed during China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown has asked Ho…
Prominent pro-democracy group Hong Kong Alliance voted to disband after many of its leaders were arrested The Hong Kong pro-democracy group that organised three decades of vigils commemorating the victims of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square massacre has vote…
The career of the Observer’s former China correspondent who died last week, was marked by a willingness to review his convictionsJonathan Mirsky, the Observer’s former China correspondent who has died aged 88, was acutely aware of the mounting danger f…
Crackdown follows arrest of four members of civil society group that ran June 4th MuseumHong Kong authorities have raided the city’s Tiananmen massacre museum a day after arresting four members of the civil society group that ran it.The raid is the lat…
Longstanding group accused of being ‘agent of foreign forces’ and is asked for information about its membershipHong Kong’s national security police are investigating the organisers of a vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre for alleged fore…
As China marks the centenary of its ruling party, we examine key episodes in its tempestuous history, including the Long March, Mao’s purges and Xi Jinping’s rise to the top of an emerging superpowerAnyone visiting First Meeting Hall in Shanghai, the m…
Tributes lit in the windows of the US consulate building and the European Union’s office are a ‘political show’, says China China has berated the US and EU consulates in Hong Kong for displaying candles to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre , bl…
Residents light candles, lay flowers and paint messages as police enforce ban on annual vigil for massacreHong Kong vigil leader arrested as 7,000 police enforce ban on protestsA man walked down a Hong Kong street on Friday wearing a shirt hand-painted…
Officers mobilised to break up the once-traditional events to mark the brutal crackdown against dissent in China 32 years agoHong Kong police have arrested a prominent barrister for allegedly promoting an unauthorised assembly on the anniversary of the…
Hong Kong, Macau and China ban gatherings, and Taiwan has a serious Covid outbreak, leaving people to remember the massacre alone or onlineFor the first time since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, there will be no formal commemoration event held in …