Tiananmen Mothers

18 Jan 2013

More than 100 mourners flocked to a traditional house in a quiet alleyway in Beijing yesterday morning to pay their respects at the home of the late Zhao Ziyang on the eighth anniversary of the...

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Families vow to fight on

5 Jun 2012

Security was tightened in Tiananmen Square and other sensitive spots in Beijing yesterday, with the authorities jittery about activities and gatherings to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the...

4:42PM

Activists under security watch

4 Jun 2012

Mainland authorities have imposed what they are calling 'wartime' security measures in some sensitive parts of Beijing, as surveillance is stepped up on dissident families of victims of the bloody...

4:38PM

Tiananmen father commits suicide after decades of 'injustice'

28 May 2012

An elderly man hanged himself last week in the run-up to the 23rd anniversary of the June 4, Tiananmen Square crackdown, after growing desperate from what he and others called years of 'injustice...

4:01PM

Tang calls Tiananmen 'individual incident'

25 Oct 2011

Former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen has called the June 4, 1989 Tianamen Square crackdown in Beijing an 'individual incident' and says Hong Kong must look at China's achievements from an...

10:56PM

Rita Fan refuses to apologise over June 4 comments

18 Oct 2011

Ding Zilin, an advocate for parents who lost their children in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, yesterday denounced Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai's refusal to apologise over her description of the...

10:25PM

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Police shadow families, activists

Mainland activists and the families of victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown yesterday marked 22 years since the crushing of pro-democracy protests amid heightened security, police harassment...

11:41AM

Flames of remembrance undimmed by the years

Tens of thousands of candle-bearers packed Victoria Park last night to mourn those who died in the crushing of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

11:39AM

Remembering Tiananmen: tragedy that shaped a nation

Twenty-two years ago today, hundreds of young lives were brutally crushed in a military crackdown on the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement - a tragedy that would shape the country's politics for...

11:35AM

Payout discussed with family of June 4 victim

Mainland authorities have for the first time discussed giving money to relatives of a victim of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

11:21AM

Notes found demanding June 4 'redress' and end to one-party rule

Notes with the words 'redress June 4' were found yesterday in government buildings and on a notice board outside the Xinhua offices in Changle, Fujian , amid tight security on the eve of the 21st...

7:27PM

Tight security as dissidents mark death of Zhao Ziyang

Beijing stepped up security measures and scrutiny on dissidents over the weekend as mourners paid tribute yesterday to deposed reformer Zhao Ziyang .

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