Beauty influencer Austin Li, part of a generation of younger Chinese people who know little of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen massacre, may have been set up by a rival when he displayed a tank-shaped ice-cream dessert on his livestream, prompting censors to pull the plug immediately, RFA has learnedCrime
Chinese beauty influencer Austin Li, whose livestream was taken off the air after he displayed a tank-shaped cake on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, June 3, 2022
Authorities in China have ordered dozens of pro-democracy activists and dissidents into house arrest or other forms of restriction ahead of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained a man for staging a public memorial of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen massacre
Probably the first time I went over the Great Firewall when I was in high school. I think I used Freedom Gate software. I felt very shocked and angry after watching the footage that showed the truth about June 4. But I didn’t feel very surprised. I have always been quite rebellious, ever since I was a kid. It just confirmed the impression I already had of the [ruling] Chinese Communist Party. It just convinced me that the views I had held since I was a kid were correct, and it also aroused in me a sense of resistance. If I’d been on Tiananmen Square back then, I would have been a student leader too.
Freedom of the press, officially guaranteed by Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution, was one of the great demands of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, crushed in blood by the Chinese regime on June 4, 1989 with a toll of several thousand dead. Thirty-one years later, the state apparatus and the Chinese Communist Party continue to flout this fundamental right on a daily basis and are now trying to extend their liberticidal practices to the rest of the world, as shown in a report published last year by RSF.
In 2017, Chinese sculptor and political activist Chen Weiming unveiled a sculpture of Crazy Horse to mark the opening of Liberty Sculpture Pa in California’s Mojave desert.
Liu Jian hid 2,000 photographs shot over the weeks leading up to the 1989 massacre, printing them only after he was living in the U.S. and realized his daughter’s generation knew nothing of the movement
Three decades after the student-led mass movement took hold of cities across China, prompting then supreme leader Deng Xiaoping to order the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to clear Beijing through martial law, the loved ones of those who died in the ensuing massacre are under house arrest or on enforced “vacations” with the state security police
Chinese rights activist and tech expert Pu Fei said people had once relied heavily on versions of Wikipedia that were still accessible, to get access to uncensored information