Category Archives: June 4th Commemoration

Tiananmen’s ‘Most Wanted’: Four inspiring activists remember the crackdown – Part One

2 June 2014

 


قُتل أو جُرح المئات، إن لم يكن الآلاف، ليلتي 3 و4 يونيو 1989 مع اقتحام الدبابات ميدان تيانانمن قُتل أو جُرح المئات، إن لم يكن الآلاف، ليلتي 3 و4 يونيو 1989 مع اقتحام الدبابات ميدان تيانانمن © Hong Kong Alliance


When you have rows and rows of tanks moving together, the ground shakes. I saw people with bloody shirts; people being carried on rooftops to safety so they could go to hospital. It was not safe on the road with stray bullets flying everywhere.
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‘You Won’t Get Near Tiananmen!’: Hu Jia on the Continuing Crackdown

Ian Johnson

Hu Jia
Hu Jia is one of China’s best-known political activists. He participated in the 1989 Tiananmen protests as a fifteen-year-old, studied economics, and then worked for environmental and public health non-governmental organizations. Continue reading

Hong Kong holds march to remember Tiananmen

By AP News Jun 02, 2014 2:03PM UTC


Thousands of Hong Kong people march on a downtown street in Hong Kong Sunday. Pic: AP. Continue reading

Hong Kong protesters march ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

By Wilfred Chan, CNN

updated 2:09 AM EDT, Mon June 2, 2014

Protesters marched to Hong Kong’s government headquarters to demand democracy in Hong Kong and China. Protesters marched to Hong Kong’s government headquarters to demand democracy in Hong Kong and China. Continue reading

China tried to erase memories of Tiananmen. But it lives on in the work of dissident artists.

BY WILLIAM WAN May 31

In 2006, Liu Yi began painting in secret faces meant to represent those killed in the 1989 crackdown. For years, he said, he showed the work to no one except his wife and a handful of close friends, not wanting to alienate dealers for his Continue reading

Tales of Army Discord Show Tiananmen Square in a New Light

By ANDREW JACOBS and CHRIS BUCKLEYJUNE 2, 2014

Residents and soldiers on the street in Beijing on June 6, 1989 after the crackdown on protesters. Credit LIU Heung Shing/Associated Press Continue reading

Guo Jian’s installation

May 30, 2014 6:23 pm

The Chinese artist and Tiananmen protester’s recent pieces include a landscape painting created with small pieces of litter and a diorama of Tiananmen Square with minced pork

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Australian artist detained by Chinese authorities ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

June 2, 2014

Philip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Beijing: Prominent Australian artist Guo Jian has been detained in China amid a heightened security operation in central Beijing aimed at preventing the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Continue reading