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Chinese govt orchestrates steps to suppress commemorations of upcoming Tia
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Chinese administration has orchestrated several arrests of activists who desired to organise the commemoration ceremonies of the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre to be held on Tuesday in China and Hong Kong, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Sunday.
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Trump's conviction sparks interest, schadenfreude in China
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
As an authoritarian superpower on the rise, China has long sought to portray its political system as superior to American democracy.
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Hong Kong: Six arrested in first use of 'contentious' national security la
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The city's national security police arrested six people, including a woman who is currently in prison, on suspicion of committing acts with "seditious" intent, according to a police statement.
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In post-COVID China, masks off, but Xi's tight control persists: Report
Updated : 2 years ago IST
For the first time in four years, thousands of delegates attending the annual meetings of the national legislature, China's top political advisory body, did not have to wear face masks or observe social distancing rules in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, CNN reported.
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UK urges immediate release of Jimmy Lai as Hong Kong trial begins
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Lai, detained since December 2020, appeared in court facing charges of conspiring to collude with foreign powers under China's national security law imposed on the territory in June 2020.
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Asian Games: 'Tiananmen massacre' reference behind China censoring photo o
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
China reportedly censored a photograph of two Chinese hurdlers embracing after a race because their lane numbers formed an accidental reference to the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, CNN reported.
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Protests held outside Chinese embassy in London to commemorate Tiananmen S
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
In order to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre that occurred on June 4, 1989, several protesters gathered outside the Chinese embassy in London on Monday.
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'Bridge Man' believed to be person responsible for protest against anti-CO
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Peng Lifa, also known as "Bridge Man" is widely believed to be the person responsible for initiating one of the greatest protests in China since the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which happened in 1989.
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34 years of Tiananmen Square massacre: US says will support human rights i
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
On the 34th anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre, the United States said that it will continue to support human rights and fundamental freedoms in China and around the world.
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China Democracy Party holds meet in London on anniversary of Tiananmen Squ
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The event was organised at the Royal National Hotel in London. It was attended in person and via Zoom meetings by leaders of CDP from the UK, the US, the Taiwan Ambassador to Germany, International campaigners, journalists, Chinese dissident leaders and activists and Hong Kong activists.
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Foreign companies have been complicit in evading arms sanctions against Ch
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
After 1989, China fell out of favour with Western defence companies selling military equipment to China and the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which was culpable in the deaths of hundreds of peaceful protestors in the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Hong Kong police seize Tiananmen crackdown statue, say it's an attempt to
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"The National Security Department ... conducted searches with a warrant this morning. An exhibit related to an 'incitement to subversion' case was seized," police said in a statement.
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