The Tiananmen student protest and massacre is still a censored topic in mainland China. Estimates of the death toll vary, ranging from hundreds to thousands.

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He has already been convicted of numerous other charges, such as lighting a candle to commemorate victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. For that alone, he was sentenced to 14 months. Apple Daily was shut down by the authorities in 2021.

Tanks sit in a street in Beijing two days after the suppression of the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.

When you ask Siri about the Tiananmen Square massacre, the program replies in Mandarin: "I didn't find an appointment about Tiananmen Square," according to Want China News.

Ji Feng, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square students protests who still lives in mainland China, told The Epoch Times, “This is a great thing.

A CS-5000T drone during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sept 3, 2025.

Many Chinese media outside China also reported Wen's intention to rehabilitate the Tiananmen student movement.

Xi and Kim Jong Un last met in September 2025 in Beijing, where the CCP leader presided over a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.

Senior Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin (C) asks for political asylum in Australia during a rally marking the 16th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, in Sydney, 04 June 2005.

A secret British diplomatic cable alleged that at least 10,000 people were killed in Tiananmen Square, and thousands were wounded, arrested, jailed, and tortured.

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Normally, the surveillance camera in Tiananmen Square covers a fixed area. But on this particular day, the camera follows the police to the scene and zooms in to focus on the incident.

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The Tiananmen Square massacre was a pivotal event in Jiang's political career.

“Gao Zhisheng is a voice of conscience and a symbol of moral courage in the face of injustice,” said event host Feng Congde, who was a student leader and survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

On June 4, 1989, China's communist regime ordered its troops to open fire on student protesters and unarmed civilians at Tiananmen Square in China's capital.

Kirkland added that while in Beijing, she also had a chance to visit Tiananmen Square and was reminded of the Chinese Communist Party's tragic massacre of students demanding democracy in 1989.

Wang was one of the main student leaders during the Tiananmen Square protest. He was later sentenced to prison for his role in the movement and went into exile in the United States in 1998.

Pro-democracy activists held activities commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Monterey Park city, Los Angeles, on May 28. 

The criticisms focus on the recent conviction of 14 political dissidents by CCP authorities, and come in the wake of recent CCP suppression in Hong Kong about discussions on the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

“That optimism was crushed just five years later in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, where hundreds if not thousands of students and pro-reform activists were killed,” the letter stated.

On Sept. 3, thousands of troops and advanced weapons paraded through Tiananmen Square, in what was seen as an effort to stoke nationalist sentiment amid economic strains and rising tensions with the United States and its allies.

The first event named was the Tiananmen Square massacre.

In Liu’s case, she and her father, Arthur Liu, who fled China in the 1990s because of his involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, rejected China’s recruitment attempts.

Fang Zheng, president of the Chinese Democratic Education Foundation and a survivor of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, described the "Nine Commentaries" as a "heavenly book."

That hope, the House lawmakers noted, was “crushed” by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Continuing the agreement, they argued, would be “at odds with American values” and would legitimize “a regime actively working against those principles.”

A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard before security cameras at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on April 8, 2019.

It surpasses the purge following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, when Beijing ousted Zhao Ziyang, then-general secretary, along with another Politburo member who showed sympathy for pro-democracy student protesters.

The CCP had learned from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre how to better conceal its attacks on Chinese citizens, force submission, and demonise a group it wants to eradicate.