カテゴリー: Tiananmen Square protests 1989
For years, Hong Kong has been one of just two cities in China allowed to mark anniversaries of the deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. This year, however, Hong Kong authorities banned the vigil for the s…
Case comes on same day judge suggests speaking critically in foreign media could breach security lawsThe jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to an extra 14 months in prison over his conviction for an unauthorised assembly in 2019…
Activist Joshua Wong separately sentenced over Tiananmen vigil protest in 2020A court in Hong Kong has sentenced three people to years in jail on riot convictions, despite no evidence they were actually involved in rioting. In a separate case, the acti…
Watch given to Chinese troops who took part in 1989 crackdown pulled by Fellows after vendor received online threatsA luxury UK auction house has withdrawn from sale a rare watch given to Chinese soldiers as a reward for their part in the Tiananmen Squ…
Campaigner Simon Cheng, granted asylum in UK, says shadow parliament would send ‘clear signal’ to BeijingHong Kong pro-democracy activists are discussing a plan to create an unofficial parliament-in-exile to preserve democracy and send a message to Chi…
Meetings on Tiananmen Square massacre and Hong Kong crisis were taken down because Communist government complainedZoom has admitted it suspended the accounts of human rights activists at the behest of the Chinese government and suggested it will block …
Protesters in Hong Kong have defied a police ban to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown with a vigil, as the city’s legislature passed a law criminalising the mocking of China’s national anthem. Many fear this year’s commem…
Student protesters and journalists in 1989 recall the joy and hope before the crackdownIt was mid-morning in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 1 June, 1989. Someone had turned on a boombox playing 80s disco music, and people began to dance. A young couple…
Student protesters and journalists in 1989 recall the joy and hope before the crackdownIt was mid-morning in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 1 June, 1989. Someone had turned on a boombox playing 80s disco music, and people began to dance. A young couple…
Protesters defy police ban as legislation prohibits mockery of Chinese anthemThousands of people have defied a police ban in Hong Kong to mourn the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, after the city’s legislature passed a law criminalising the mo…
Government accused of using coronavirus as a pretext to ban march on 4 June, the anniversary of the massacreOrganisers of Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square vigil have urged people to “be water” and find their own ways to hold commemorations after coronaviru…
Restrictions were due to end but Hong Kong extends social distancing measures for 14 days Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has in effect banned an annual vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre by extending its phys…
Exclusive: Dr Jiang Yangyong’s movements restricted after he wrote to authorities about 1989 Tiananmen Square protestsThe Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government’s cover-up of the the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic in 200…
Inclusion of pledge to follow Communist party leadership sparks rare defiance at FudanChanges to the charter of one of China’s top universities, including dropping the phrase “freedom of thought” and the inclusion of a pledge to follow the Communist pa…
Chinese political scientist who was forced into exile after the Tiananmen Square massacreThe political scientist Su Shaozhi, who has died aged 96, was a campaigner for reform of the Chinese Communist party in the post-Mao years, until he was forced int…