World Dec 24 Universities remove more Tiananmen massacre memorials in Hong Kong Universities in Hong Kong are removing memorials to the bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. By News Desk
World Dec 23 Citing ‘legal risks’, last monument for Tiananmen massacre removed in Hong Kong A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil was removed early Thursday, wiping out the city's last place of public commemoration of the bloody 1989 crackdown. By Zen Soo, Associated Press
World Jun 04 Watch 6:45 Tiananmen Square massacre casts a long shadow over modern Chinese politics Friday marked the 32nd anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, where hundreds and perhaps thousands of people were killed by the Chinese government amid a Democratic protest movement. But many Chinese know nothing of what happened that day. Nick… By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn
World Jun 03 Reporter’s Notebook: How Tiananmen Square expanded global coverage In spring 1989, journalists arrived in Beijing to cover Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's visit, while students amassed in Tiananmen Square. Michael D. Mosettig looks at how world events and television news coverage became one story. By Michael D. Mosettig
Jun 04 Watch Legacy of Tiananmen Crackdown Lingers Over China’s Politics Analysts reflect on the life of key Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, who died in 2005 after being under house arrest for almost two decades and kept a secret journal chronicling the events around the Tiananmen Square protests. Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch Police Crowd Tiananmen to Block Possible Anniversary Protests Independent Television News correspondent John Ray reports from Beijing on the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, where police maintained a heavy presence to tamp down on demonstrations. Continue watching
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Student Activist Yang Jianli By PBS NewsHour Yang Jianli, a student activist at the Tiananmen Square anti-government protests in 1989, now lives in the United States and continues to advocate for human rights 20 years later. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Student Activist Wang Dan By PBS NewsHour Leading up to the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, Wang Dan was one of the most high-profile student activists, spearheading efforts to try to bring democratic change to China's regime. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng By PBS NewsHour In the weeks leading up to the military crackdown in Tiananmen in 1989, Chinese Premier Li Peng came to represent the conservative wing of the Communist Party leadership, speaking for those who favored the harshest response to student demonstrators. Continue reading