It refuses to answer questions on topics the Chinese regime doesn't normally discuss, such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the persecution of Falun Gong.

Participants at the 180,000-strong Tiananmen Square Massacre Candlelight Vigil in Hong Kong hold up candles and posters, commemorating the victims.

WASHINGTON–A bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered in the capital today to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre and celebrate the continued struggle for democracy in China.

Hong Kong authorities have banned the annual vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.

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.

“I remember the Tiananmen Square [massacre], I remember different things from history. So I understand a little bit of what goes on in the country, but I’m not that well informed,” Mr. Chandler said.

To find out, we welcomed two guests: Zhou Fengsuo, a former student leader in China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, who fought for freedom in China, and Tom Oliverson, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, who's working on constructing

Terms such as “democracy,” “freedom,” and “human rights,” along with references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, were found to be conspicuously absent from the apps’ generated content, according to the NSB.

The night of June 3, Wang said he and his wife went to Tiananmen Square and left after 10 p.m., returning to their home near the gate tower of Yongdingmen, a seven to eight minute bike ride to Tiananmen Square.

For contemporary Chinese people, the Tiananmen Square massacre (known as the June Fourth Incident in China) is an insurmountable hurdle.

For years afterwards the group organized Hong Kong's annual Victoria Park candlelight vigil commemorating the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre.

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.

The Minnesota governor has worked to raise awareness about China's human rights issues dating back to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. A remote Australian island has caught the U.S. military's interest.

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is observed outside China.

HONG KONG—Two organizers of Hong Kong's long-running vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre pleaded not guilty Thursday, while a third pleaded guilty before the trial brought under a national security law that has largely erased dissent

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Participants at the 180,000-strong Tiananmen Square Massacre Candlelight Vigil in Hong Kong hold up candles and posters, commemorating the victims.

June 4 marks the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. A congressional panel zoomed in on what happened on the infamous day, and the ongoing struggle for freedom inside communist China.

The first event named was 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.

People commemorate the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 3, 2024.

Chow Hang-tung, founder of a now-defunct group that once organized the city's annual vigils to commemorate victims of the CCP's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was charged in 2021 with inciting subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law.

The sensitive date in question appears to refer to June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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

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.”

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.

Jens Galschiot—sculptor of the "Pillar of Shame" artwork that commemorated the Tiananmen Square Massacre and was forcibly removed from the University of Hong Kong in 2021—also participated in the exhibition with his work "Stand with Hong Kong."

(Right) A lone Chinese man blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace during the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 5, 1989.

An MSS agent tasked Tang with photographing and recording local protests against the CCP, including a 2023 event in Manhattan commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, according to a court filing.

The National Security Bureau accused her and others of posting anonymously on a social media page, using the "upcoming sensitive day," meaning the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, 1989, to incite netizens to organize or participate