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Hidden for Decades: Restored Tiananmen Footage Offers Unfiltered View of June 4

The rare recordings capture student protesters, ordinary citizens, military deployments, and candid interviews that offer an unfiltered view of one of the most consequential events...

China: No Justice for Tiananmen Massacre 37 Years On

Click to expand Image University students dance during the pro-democracy demonstration i...

A Chinese Law Student Who Joined the 1989 Tiananmen Hunger Strike Recalls the Six Weeks That Led to the Massacre

Beijing students took to the streets within days of Hu Yaobang’s death On April 15, 1989, Hu Yaobang died. Hu had served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party before...

Tiananmen Is Not Just China’s Story

The 1989 crackdown reinforced a political order that made independent worker organizing nearly impossible. The effects have been felt across the global economy.

Hong Kong artist who tried to mark Tiananmen massacre intercepted by police

Public acts to commemorate the 1989 killings have become increasingly sensitive in Hong KongA performance artist in Hong Kong who tried on Wednesday to honour the victims of Beijin...

‘I Had Resolved to Die’: Former Peking University Student Recalls Tiananmen Crackdown

In an exclusive interview, Li recounts writing a farewell letter before joining a hunger strike, witnessing armed troops surround the Monument to the People's Heroes, spending six...

Tiananmen Survivor Speaks in Toronto on 37th Anniversary, Calls on World to Stand With the Imprisoned

Zhou Fengsuo, executive director of Human Rights in China and a student leader who was present at Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3 to 4, 1989, delivered the following addres...

A Hong Kong artist tries to mark the Tiananmen crackdown. Police quickly stopped him

A performance artist in Hong Kong has tried to display a red thread to commemorate the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing.

Hong Kong: No Safety in Exile

LONDON, June 19 (IPS) - When performance artist Sammu Chen tried to tie a red thread to a streetpost, plainclothes police stopped him before he could finish. Chen has twice been d...

Zhao Ziyang’s Five Proposals Terrified the CCP Elite and Sealed His Fate

On May 16, 1989, the five proposals that Zhao Ziyang placed before his Politburo Standing Committee colleagues set off a sequence of events that ended in tanks on the streets of Be...

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‘Every year I get new pictures’: the fight to preserve the memory of Tiananmen

Amid growing censorship at home under the rule of Xi Jinping, efforts to document the massacre of 4 June, 1989, are intensifying abroadDiscussions about the bloody crackdown on pea...

June Fourth Survivor Li Shuangde Recounts Being Wounded and Rescued by Beijing Residents

June 4, 2026, marked the 37th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. Around this anniversary, Vision Times interviewed Li Shuangde, a June Fourth eyewitness and human r...

The Men Who Ordered the Tiananmen Square Massacre Were Wiring Money to Switzerland That Night

Declassified Canadian diplomatic cables from 1989 reveal that senior Party leaders sought Swiss bank transfers in the same weeks they ordered the massacre of pro-democracy proteste...

Zhao Ziyang’s Fall Was Complete a Year Before Tiananmen

Deng Xiaoping's reckless 1988 price gamble destroyed China's reform architect.

Police warn families of Tiananmen crackdown dead not to visit graves on 37th anniversary

Chinese authorities are snuffing out any remembrance of the deadly 1989 military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, which happened 37 years ago Th...

37th Anniversary Of ‘June 4th’ Commemorated At Chinese Embassy In Washington

According to The Epoch Times, to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the “June 4th” pro-democracy movement, several groups including the Chinese Students and Scholars Federation (o...

Tiananmen activist defends advocacy at HK trial

Thousands Gather in Toronto to Mark 37th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre

Over 1,000 people gathered in Toronto to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, bringing together veteran democracy activists, Hong Kong advocates, and...

Why Beijing Still Fears the Tiananmen Mothers

Thirty-seven years later, the regime’s legitimacy still rests on suppressing the truth of what happened on June 4, 1989.

Activists struggle to keep spotlight on Tiananmen in world beset by crises

Chinese Activist Zhang Chao Arrested After Posting Tiananmen Photo on WeChat

Authorities detained the Shandong labor-rights campaigner hours after he photographed the square on the 37th anniversary of the June 4 massacre.

Ice protest

Rare protest over animal abuse spotlights China's 'mass-movement' fears