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It’s been years since mass arrests all but silenced pro-democracy activism in Hong Kong. But a crackdown on dissent in the ...
China prepares for a grand military parade in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 3. President Xi Jinping will review the troops. New weapons and equipment will be on display. Vladimir Putin and ...
Like that piece of art, Gao Zhen, one half of the artist duo, sits locked away in a prison cell in Beijing, awaiting sentencing on charges of “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs.” ...
Security was tight Wednesday around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where weeks of student-led protests shook ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded the Seattle Art Museum with a grant.
In 2024, he was detained for writing “8964” in the air and miming the act of pouring wine onto the ground to symbolize mourning for those massacred during the Tiananmen Square protests.
While the streets of Hong Kong may now fall silent on June 4, Tiananmen’s memory has not vanished — it has gone global. From candlelight vigils in Taipei and Vancouver to art installations in Berlin ...
Jens Galschiøt’s Tiananmen Massacre-themed artwork, the Pillar of Shame, which stood on the Hong Kong University campus for over 20 years, was removed in the dark of night in December 2021, and ...
People gather near a soccer field which in previous years had been used annually for vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, at Victoria Park, Hong Kong, June 4, 2024. This year, the ...
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing’s Tiananmen Square had checkpoints and police vehicles on Tuesday as China tried to silence the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
A man holds a poster of the famous “Tank Man” standing in front of Chinese military tanks at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989, during a candlelit remembrance in Victoria Park in Hong Kong ...
Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined roads leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy ...