Tag: Tiananmen
Multiple arrests in Hong Kong, where the memory of the Tiananmen crackdown is no longer tolerated
For having had a copy of the book entitled May 35, an ironic date referring to June 4 (May 31 plus four days) composed to escape Chinese censorship, a young…
In Hong Kong, an opposition party leader arrested during a tribute to Tiananmen
The leader of an opposition party in Hong Kong, the League of Social Democrats, was arrested on Sunday June 4, 34e anniversary of the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square, Beijing,…
Hong Kong: artists arrested on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen movement
Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: YAN ZHAO / AFP 5:22 p.m., June 03, 2023 Hong Kong police have arrested at least two artists and two other people in…
Censorship in China: an episode of The Simpsons which ironically talks about Tiananmen not found on Disney+
An episode of the ‘Simpsons’ cartoon that references “forced labor camps” in China can’t be found on the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong, where artistic production is coming under…
Tiananmen anniversary stealthily commemorated in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, no public gatherings are allowed to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Hong Kong residents wishing to commemorate the 33rd…
Tiananmen anniversary ignored in China and Hong Kong
Police warned that any memorial gathering would be illegal. Commemorating Tiananmen in public is now only legal overseas. China was preparing on Saturday June 4 to live without any public…
United States: in 1989, George Bush in the Tiananmen impasse
By Piotr Smolar Posted today at 05:34 Reserved for our subscribers Story“Rivals in power” (3/6). “Le Monde” returns, in a six-part series, to the key events in the tumultuous history…
Hong Kong: a new work commemorating Tiananmen removed from a university
A few weeks after the unbolting of statues on various university campuses, Hong Kong continues to erase tributes to the bloody repression of June 4, 1989 in Beijing. A Hong…
New artwork commemorating Tiananmen removed from Hong Kong university
A new inscription honoring the victims of the Tiananmen crackdown has been removed from a Hong Kong university. A Hong Kong university on Saturday masked an inscription that paid tribute…
Hong Kong activist sentenced to 15 months in prison for vigil for Tiananmen
Posted on 01/04/2022 at 7:55 a.m. Photo credit © Reuters by Jessie…
In Hong Kong, Beijing debunks the statue of tribute to the victims of Tiananmen
Beijing is strengthening its hold on Hong Kong a little more. The “Pillar of Shame”, a statue paying homage to victims of the Tiananmen crackdown, was removed from the University…