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Hong Kong police make multiple arrests as Tiananmen gatherings banned

Holmes Chan, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 05 08:40 AM

Hong Kong authorities detained multiple people as they pounced on any attempt at public commemoration of the Tiananmen crackdown. Read more »

Hong Kong drives Tiananmen memories underground

Su Xinqi and Holmes Chan, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 04 09:24 PM

On June 4, 1989, China sent troops and tanks to break up peaceful protests, crushing demonstrations calling for political change and curbs on official corruption. Read more »

New history textbooks ‘compress details of Tiananmen crackdown'

William Yu, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jun 04 10:54 AM

New Chinese history textbooks designed for a revised syllabus for junior secondary students in Hong Kong only briefly discuss the Tiananmen crackdown. Read more »

HK police close Victoria Park on eve of Tiananmen anniversary

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 03 09:16 PM

Hong Kong police said on Friday that they will close large parts of Victoria Park, once the site of packed annual candlelight vigils to commemorate China's Tiananmen crackdown, on the eve of the event's 33rd anniversary. Read more »

HK police warn against Tiananmen anniversary gatherings

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 02 07:10 PM

Hong Kong police have warned that people risk breaking the law if they gather on Saturday to commemorate China's Tiananmen crackdown -- particularly in the city's Victoria Park, the site of a once annual candlelit vigil. Read more »

Hong Kong university covers up Tiananmen crackdown tribute

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 29 05:06 PM

Hong Kong's oldest university covered up one of the last public tributes to the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on Saturday, as Beijing continues to muzzle dissent in the financial hub. Read more »

2 more Hong Kong universities remove Tiananmen artwork

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 24 04:46 PM

Two Hong Kong universities on Friday removed sculptures marking Beijing's 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters, as authorities steadily erase all remaining traces of the deadly event from the southern Chinese territory. Read more »

Memorial to Tiananmen massacre victims removed from HK campus

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 23 07:08 PM

The University of Hong Kong removed a sculpture commemorating those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown from its campus in the early hours of Thursday, a symbolic move showing that the bloody event has become a taboo subject in the Chinese territory as in the rest of China. Read more »

Cops order Tiananmen vigil group to delete websites

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 16 06:25 PM

Organizers of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen vigil said they had been ordered by national security police to delete their online presence. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 9, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 09 11:40 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Police raid museum commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre victims

Tyrone Siu, Reuters
Posted at Sep 09 06:57 PM

Police raid the June 4th Museum, which commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Hong Kong on Thursday Read more »

Museum commemorating 1989 Tiananmen victims reopens online

Reuters
Posted at Aug 04 07:20 PM

A museum dedicated to the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square reopened online. Read more »

Xi hails 'irreversible' rise of China at 100th birthday of Communist Party

Patrick Baert and Beiyi Seow, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 01 10:42 AM

The era of China "being slaughtered and bullied is gone forever," said Xi, wearing the 'Mao-style' jacket, adding the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical course."   Read more »

China blocks shopping app after post on Tiananmen anniversary

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 07 08:07 PM

A Chinese shopping app has been blocked on social media after a post on the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, as Beijing's censorship kicked into gear around the sensitive date. Read more »

China blasts US, EU consulates in Hong Kong for Tiananmen candles

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 05 12:04 PM

China on Saturday berated the United States and European Union consulates in Hong Kong for displaying candles to commemorate the June 4 Tiananmen crackdown, slamming it as a "clumsy political show" to destabilize the city.   Read more »

Remembering China's Tiananmen Square crackdown

Isaac Lawrence, AFP
Posted at Jun 05 11:22 AM

A woman (L) holds a front page copy of a newspaper from after China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 in Hong Kong on Friday after police closed the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. Read more »

Famed Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' photo vanishes from Bing search engine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 05 09:38 AM

Searches for the famous Tiananmen Square "Tank Man" protest photo came up empty on Microsoft search engine Bing on Friday, raising censorship concerns on the anniversary of the deadly crackdown. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 4, 2021

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Updated as of Aug 16 03:19 PM

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Phone lights signal Hong Kong's Tiananmen memories still shine

Yan Zhao, Daniel Suen and Louise Delmotte, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 04 11:43 PM

As the clock struck 8pm in Hong Kong's shopping district of Mong Kok, dozens of people simultaneously turned their mobile phone lights on, a small gesture of defiance in a city where mass remembrance of Beijing's Tiananmen crackdown has been banned. Read more »

Tiananmen Square massacre remembered 32 years on

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 04 09:14 PM

Members of various cause-oriented groups hold a protest and candle lighting ceremony while offering a thousand white roses at the 11th World Scout Jamboree Memorial Rotonda in Quezon City on Friday to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.  Read more »