1989 protests, chinese government, chinese history, democracy movement, eyewitness account, human rights, june 4 1989, june 4 massacre, june 4 pro-democracy movements, political repression, student protests, tiananmen square massacre, xu qinxian
On April 15, 1989, following the death of Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a memorial held by students in Tiananmen Square quickly escalated into the largest democratic movement in Chinese history. From the night of June 3 to the early hours of June 4, CCP troops committed a ...
On the evening of July 21, 2019, dozens of masked men in white T-shirts stormed the Yuen Long train station and assaulted people returning home after a pro-democracy protest, as well as passers-by, with wooden sticks and metal rods. There has been widespread speculation that the attackers belonged to the Hong Kong triads — the ...
Three prominent young leaders of Hong Kong’s democracy movement were sentenced on August 17 to 6-8 months in prison. This comes as a major setback for the semi-autonomous Chinese city, which is struggling for greater political freedom under China’s Communist Party rule. In spite of this, support for the jailed students keeps increasing. Joshua Wong, ...