United Nations ‘alarmed’ by Hong Kong 4th June detentions
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters The United Nations said on Monday it was “alarmed” by detentions in Hong Kong linked to the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, while China said the financial hub was moving from “chaos” to prosperity. Hong Kong police said they detained 23 people on Sunday for “breaching public peace”, and also […]
Scores detained in Hong Kong on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary
Hong Kong, China/Taipei, Taiwan Reuters Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on Sunday, including four arrested for “seditious” intent, as authorities tightened security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the largest vigils marking the anniversary of the bloody crackdown […]
Hong Kong businesses mark Tiananmen anniversary in face of pressures
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Some Hong Kong shopkeepers are quietly commemorating the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown despite the spectre of a China-imposed national security law and pressure to stay silent on the episode that is censored in mainland China. Hong Kong used to play a leading global role in commemorating the 1989 crackdown by […]
New Tiananmen museum opens in New York ahead of 4th June anniversary
New York, USReuters The hope for a “free China” lives on in a new Manhattan museum dedicated to China’s 1989 suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations around Tiananmen Square, exhibit organisers said on Thursday ahead of the 34th anniversary of the crackdown. The June 4th Memorial Museum in New York will be the only such permanent exhibition […]
Hundreds gather to mark Tiananmen anniversary in Taiwan
Taipei/Hong KongReuters Hundreds of people gathered in Taipei on Saturday to commemorate China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 33 years ago. Chinese-run Hong Kong deployed heavy security to prevent any sign of protest there. Taiwanese gather to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen crackdown in Taipei, Taiwan, on 4th June. […]
China’s Tiananmen victims won’t be forgotten, US says
Taipei, Taiwan/Hong Kong Reuters The efforts of the victims of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square 33 years ago will not be forgotten, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, as Hong Kong warned against unlawful gatherings. Saturday marks the 33rd anniversary of Chinese troops opening fire to end the […]
Two more Tiananmen monuments removed from Hong Kong university campuses
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Two more Hong Kong universities on Friday removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following on the heels of the dismantling of a sculpture marking victims of the crackdown at another university earlier this week. A “Goddess of Democracy” statue holding aloft a flame at Hong Kong’s Chinese University […]
Updated: Hong Kong university dismantles, removes Tiananmen statue from campus
Updated: 8.30am, 24th December (AEDT)Hong Kong, ChinaReuters A leading Hong Kong university has dismantled and removed a statue from its campus site that for more than two decades has commemorated pro-democracy protesters killed during China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. The artwork, of anguished human torsos, is one of the few remaining public memorials in […]
Hong Kong museum commemorating 1989 Tiananmen victims reopens online
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong’s June 4th Museum, dedicated to the victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, reopened online on Wednesday as “8964 Museum”, a pro-democracy group said. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the organisers of annual 4th June vigils in […]
Updated: Hong Kong cordons off annual Tiananmen vigil site, arrests organiser
Updated: 6pm (AEST)Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Hong Kong closed off Victoria Park where tens of thousands gather annually to commemorate China’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown and arrested the vigil’s organiser, in what activists see as suppression of one of the city’s key symbols of democratic hope. Thousands of officers are expected to patrol the city’s streets on […]