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Shenzhen University bans students from 'black shirt' campaign on June 4 eve

University on edge, forbidding students from wearing Tiananmen 'mourning clothes' ahead of June 4 anniversary

Tens of thousands of people take part in a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park to mark the 23rd anniversary of the crackdown on June 4, 2012. Photo: Sam Tsang

As Hong Kong prepares to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown, authorities in neighbouring Guangdong province are beginning to get shifty about domestic dissenters.  

“Black shirt” campaigns to mourn victims of the June 4, 1989, event are being pre-emptively suppressed on university campuses, China Digital Times (CDT) reported on Monday. The campaign, which began in Hong Kong last year, involves people dressing in black attire to mourn victims who were killed in Beijing in the government crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests 24 years ago.