For years, Chen has persisted in memorializing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. In 2018, he was detained for taking photos in a park with a tank in the background on June 4.

“The spirit of Tiananmen is alive in China and everywhere freedom-loving people gather.

Visitors wait at a bus stop in the Tiananmen Square area in Beijing on June 2, 2021.

In 2014, it opened a Tiananmen Square massacre museum, the first such museum in the world. However, it was shut in June and was recently raided by the police.

June 4 marked the 33rd anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's Tiananmen Square massacre. In Hong Kong as in mainland China, any commemoration of the atrocity faced a crackdown by authorities.

An activist behind the annual Tiananmen Square vigil in Hong Kong was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Jan. 4 for inciting others to participate in an unauthorized assembly in 2021 to commemorate the victims of the June 4, 1989, massacre at the hands

Two other Hong Kong universities removed Tiananmen monuments on Friday.

She described the conviction as “one step in the systemic erasure of history, both of the Tiananmen Massacre and Hong Kong’s own history of civic resistance.”

Galschiot told ArtNet that his work served as not just a monument, but a tombstone for those massacred at Tiananmen. “We all believed that one day, we will put it in Tiananmen Square in Beijing,” the artist said. “One day, China will change.

Apparently, the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre is such a sore spot for the Chinese regime that the sale of a tank-shaped cake has to be censored.

(Vincent Yu/AP Photo) Some churches opened their doors for memorial masses for the victims of Tiananmen, with people filling up the venues amid fears of being arrested on the streets.

A mainland Chinese student paid tribute to the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) campus, where the Goddess of Democracy statue had been situated before being removed last year.

TAIPEI—Taiwan's people will never forget China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square 32 years ago and will stick with their faith in democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday.

Nine Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were given jail sentences ranging from six to 10 months on Sept. 15 after pleading guilty to participating in a candlelight vigil in 2020 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Thousands of people take part in a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre at a park in Hong Kong, on June 4, 2011.

In 2021, the CCP imposed a ban on all Tiananmen Square massacre commemorations in Hong Kong or Macau.

The assault occurred as Falun Gong practitioners held a rally near the popular tourist spot, exposing the Chinese regime’s human rights abuses ahead of the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

The United States said Thursday that Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is now “synonymous with the brutal actions” of the CCP in 1989.

A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace during the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 5, 1989.

During the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests, he helped create the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation to support the movement. Li served as a legal counsel.

Having fled China following the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, the dissident said the CCP flag was “not a cultural emblem” but rather “a painful and personal symbol of trauma, fear, and systemic oppression.”

HONG KONG—The pro-democracy group that organizes Hong Kong's annual June 4 rally to commemorate those who died in the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 is being investigated by national security police on suspicion of collusion with foreign forces

While the Chinese regime’s propaganda machine is in full swing preaching the Party’s successes prior to China’s National Day, expatriate Tiananmen Square Massacre survivors are worried about the personal safety of their supporters in Hong Kong.

And what was its role in triggering student protests on the 2021 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre?  

The Catholic church in Hong Kong has traditionally played an active role in the city's commemorations of the Tiananmen crackdown. Such activities are banned in China, where the subject is extremely sensitive.

HONG KONG—The Danish sculptor of a statue that commemorates pro-democracy protesters killed during China's Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 has accused a leading Hong Kong university of "mafia" style tactics over its order to have it removed.

The alliance is a pro-democracy organization that was established during the Tiananmen Square protests. Several of its members have been arrested under the Beijing-imposed so-called Hong Kong national security law.

"This national flag is very special since it once flew over Tiananmen Square in Beijing," wrote Shen. The same video is shared from other Chinese state mouthpieces.

This year marks the 22nd anniversary of the April 25 appeal, the largest peaceful appeal in China since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.

BEIJING—A social media account for popular Chinese e-commerce site Xiaohongshu, or "Little Red Book," was unavailable on Sunday after it issued a post on Friday, June 4, the anniversary of the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square