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Police warn families of Tiananmen crackdown dead not to visit graves on 37th anniversary
Police blocked relatives from visiting victims’ graves as China tightened controls over Tiananmen commemorations and activists faced scrutiny in Hong Kong.
- Chinese authorities prevented relatives of victims from visiting a Beijing cemetery on Thursday, the 37th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, continuing their campaign to suppress public memory of the military operation.
- The 1989 military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square remains a pivotal moment in Chinese history, though authorities have waged a yearslong campaign to erase the event from public consciousness.
- Tiananmen Mothers issued an annual appeal demanding full disclosure and legal accountability, while Amnesty International deputy director for Asia Sarah Brooks called the ban a "heartless act by the Chinese authorities."
- In Hong Kong, police increased security Thursday to block commemorations, while lawyer Chow Hang-tung launched a 37-hour hunger strike in prison that prompted former district councilor Derek Chu to join in solidarity.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement marking the anniversary, asserting that "no amount of censorship can erase the past" after recently accompanying President Donald Trump on a state visit to Beijing.
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BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese authorities are working to stifle any memory of the deadly military repression of 1989 against pro-democracy protests led by students in Tiananmen Square, 37 years old this Thursday, and...
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On 4 June 1989, the Chinese communist regime ordered the end of the pro-democratic movement in Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. It was a massacre. This year, Xi Jinping's government forbids the families of the victims to gather on their children's graves.
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