Tag: Tiananmen Massacre

Forgetting the lessons of past struggles would mean “normalizing, accepting, and ultimately repeating past abuses”

Beijing has gone to exhaustive lengths to erase the 1989 event from public memory in the mainland

Number of living relatives of the victims of the Tiananmen massacre – under the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping – dwindles every year

Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt, who created the monument, said he is considering legal action to have his property returned to him

Discussion of the events of 1989, when China set troops and tanks on peaceful protestors, is all but forbidden on the mainland

"Our bottom line is that we don't want to breach any law in Hong Kong," said the chaplain of the Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Students

Beijing has in recent years tightened control over the island territory and cracked down on dissent

One church quickly reached its 30 percent capacity set by coronavirus restrictions and opened up its courtyard to accommodate more people

This marks the second year that Hong Kong police have banned the vigil, citing coronavirus restrictions

“For various reasons, we may not be able to speak openly, but we must not forget history,” read an announcement by the diocese