And the Tiananmen crackdown from 33 years ago has made another curse: Hong Kong, a city that once supported Tiananmen student protests in 1989, now faces its own crackdown by the CCP.

During the trial, that began on Oct. 26, Chow Hang-tung repeatedly said "Tiananmen Massacre" and "killing" when questioning prosecution witnesses.

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In a unique sighting in Beijing, a black swan appears in Tiananmen Square, the center of the city. A metaphor often associated with the bird’s presence is stirring speculation. A Hong Kong actor says he’s giving up his Canadian citizenship.

Two more universities in Hong Kong erased public artwork commemorating Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, mainly students, known as the Tiananmen Massacre.

Consulate General in Hong Kong last night, commemorating the 33rd anniversary of June 4 Tiananmen.

Hongkongers who fled the suppression of freedoms in their home city took part in an annual candlelit vigil outside the Chinese Embassy in London on Saturday to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Participants at a candlelight vigil mourning victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square in Washington D.C., on June 3, 2022.

It is renowned for being the only large-scale public gathering on Chinese soil to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre, and it’s traditionally the largest vigil of its kind in the world.

Xi and Kim last met in Beijing in September 2025, after Xi presided over a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square to mark the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.

The alliance is best known for organizing candlelight vigils in Hong Kong on the anniversary of China’s bloody massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

After Tiananmen Square added to that toll, Sen. Dianne Feinstein sought to create a commission that would trace human rights in the United States and China and “point out the success and failures—both Tiananmen Square and Kent State.”

Commentary Tiananmen Is broad and clean And you can’t tell Where the dead have been And you can’t tell What happened then And you can’t speak Of Tiananmen James Fenton, “Tiananmen” (1989) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has largely silenced annual

Pro-democracy activists participate in a protest commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington on May 30, 2026.

The Beijing Tiananmen District Management Committee announced via its website on May 24 that Tiananmen Square would be closed from May 25 to June 15 as part of anti-COVID measures.

The comments came as the Eastern Hemisphere entered June 4—the anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal massacre of thousands of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

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Beijing works to quiet talk of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Hong Kong police raid the premises of a closed museum dedicated to honoring the massacre’s victims.

On November 20, 2001, 36 people from around the world gathered on Tiananmen Square. Many had never met, many didn’t even know if anyone else would show up. It was a gathering both necessary and unpredictable.

HONG KONG—A trial began Monday for Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists charged over their roles in an unauthorized Tiananmen vigil last year, amid a clampdown on political dissent in Hong Kong.

Security officers wearing face masks stand at a checkpoint near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on June 4, 2022.

After the Tiananmen Massacre, Zhao was removed from all party positions. He then spent the last 16 years of his life under house arrest.

The CCP would not have published the MOOTW rules before the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary; even Chinese netizens would have made the connection to Tiananmen Square.

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.

HONG KONG—Hong Kong police on Thursday raided the premises of the closed June 4th Museum that is dedicated to the victims of the 1989 crackdown by the Chinese communist regime on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

The annual candlelight vigil honors the students who died when the military of the CCP violently suppressed massive pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

On the same day, Lingnan University removed a memorial relief sculpture and covered a Tiananmen Massacre mural. Both were created by Chen Weiming, a New Zealand citizen, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre.