Tiananmen Square massacre

In-depth Reports 06/11/22, 16:43

One of China's biggest internet stars, Li Jiaqi, has been silent for more than a week after showing a tank-shaped cake in a live broadcast, just hours before a new anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. Li Jiaqi broadcasts live streams daily, seeking to sell the products he has been successfully marketing ...

China 12/13/21, 16:11

Five Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were sentenced to jail terms exceeding one year for honoring the thousands of victims massacred in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. On June 4 last year, thousands of people gathered to continue the traditional commemoration, even though it was banned by officials citing health risks from ...

China 10/01/21, 18:15

An online museum that keeps the memories of the Tiananmen Square victims alive has accused Hong Kong officials of trying to cancel it. The museum has been inaccessible to Hongkongers in the city since Thursday, per Reuters. In a statement, the museum said the culprit behind the blockage was trying to "erase historical memory." The museum ...

China 09/29/21, 03:35

According to RFA, on Sept. 25, after facing national security charges, the 32-year-old Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China—a group of Hong Kong residents who hold an annual vigil on June 4 to remember the protesters killed in China's 1989 Tiananmen Square—voted to disband on Saturday. It ...

China 06/05/21, 18:12

Dressed in mourning clothes, holding flowers and candles, and waving cell phone flashlights, Hong Kong residents found ways to commemorate the Tiananmen massacre on its 32nd anniversary during the day on Friday. Despite Chinese regime bans and police warnings that implemented a massive deployment in the city. Hundreds of police officers ...

China 06/04/21, 15:44

Every June 4th has a bitter taste for those who know the facts behind one of the worst massacres of the 20th century, perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1989 against thousands of students who were peacefully protesting in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Today is the 32nd anniversary ...

China 06/03/21, 14:43

Fan Baolin, a survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, was imprisoned for 17 years by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After his release, he was tracked, persecuted, and harassed by members of the regime until he finally managed to escape from China last year. Thirty-two years after the Tiananmen massacre where ...

China 06/04/20, 11:06

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recalled on the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China, and published a photo in which he was accompanied by four of the dissidents and survivors of that painful event, committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Pompeo also referred to ...

U.S. 08/19/19, 14:01

President Donald J. Trump on Sunday afternoon took a tougher stance on China than he did on social media. The president issued a stern warning to China that any trade deal would not be possible if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) turned Hong Kong into “another Tiananmen Square” massacre. Speaking to reporters ...

China 08/14/19, 17:45

Chinese state-controlled media released footage displaying armored carriers and other vehicles from the People's Armed Police of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) traveling toward the Hong Kong border. The footage provided by state-owned Chinese tabloid newspaper, Global Times, displayed a convoy of armored fleet traveling from Fujian Province to the city ...

China 07/23/19, 18:37

Li Peng, the former Premier of China, known for declaring martial law and calling in China’s military to suppress pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989, has died at age 90. The Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989, which earned Li the nickname “Butcher of Beijing,” gave much of the ...

China 06/03/19, 16:42

November 1989 marked the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, when thousands of Germans brought down the Berlin Wall—the most visible symbol of the Cold War, built by communists to separate East and West Berlin. The year 1989 also marked an outstanding event in which the communist Party chose a bloody ...