Tag: Tiananmen massacre

Overseas Chinese Mourned 34th Anniversary of 1989 Massacre

Overseas Hongkongers continue their annual commemoration of the June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre like the years before, with more and more mainlanders joining their ranks too. From 1990 to 2020, Hong Kong was able to hold large-scale candlelight vigils and rallies in public on June 4 every year. However, under the coercion of the Chinese…


Hong Kong Protest Movement Exhibition Opens in New York at the Tiananmen Memorial Museum

In time for the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the first permanent memorial museum was opened in New York on June 2. The new museum will become the only exhibition site in the world presenting the history of the 1989 massacre after the forced closure of the June 4th Memorial Museum in Hong…


A Chinese PLA Veteran Expresses Remorse Over June 4 Tiananmen Massacre in 1989

A veteran who served in Beijing Armed Police Fire Brigade during the Tiananmen massacre in Tiananmen on June 4, 1989, expressed remorse and shared how he has become a rights activist with The Epoch Times. The June 4 incident is also known as the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. Chinese communist regime’s military opened fire on…


Chinese PLA Veteran Expresses Remorse Over Tiananmen Massacre in 1989

A veteran who served in the Beijing Armed Police Fire Brigade during the Tiananmen massacre on June 4, 1989, expressed remorse and shared with The Epoch Times how he has become a rights activist. The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre is known in China as the June 4 Incident. The Chinese communist regime’s military…


House Committee Motion Voices Support for Chinese Protest, Calls Against ‘A Repeat’ of Tiananmen Massacre

A House committee has unanimously passed a motion to express support for the massive protests in China against the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its draconian “zero-COVID” policy. The motion was introduced by Conservative MP Michael Chong in the Canada-China committee on Nov. 29, and was presented to the House on Dec. 1 by Liberal…


House Committee Motion Voices Support for Chinese Protest, Warns Against ‘A Repeat’ of Tiananmen Massacre

A House committee has unanimously passed a motion to express support for the massive protests in China against the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its draconian “zero-COVID” policy. The motion was introduced by Conservative MP Michael Chong in the Canada-China committee on Nov. 29, and was presented to the House on Dec. 1 by Liberal…


Committee Adopts Motion to Express Support for Chinese Protesters, Warns Against ‘A Repeat’ of Tiananmen Massacre

Members of the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations have unanimously passed a motion to express support for the massive protests in China against the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its draconian “zero-COVID” policy. The motion was introduced by Conservative MP Michael Chong on Nov. 29, and was presented to the House on Dec. 1…


Applauding in Court, and Shouting Remarks Led to Convictions for Sedition

A Hong Kong pastor, 59, and a woman, 68, were convicted of “uttering seditious words” and other crimes for applauding from the public gallery and shouting to the magistrate, “You have lost your conscience,” when they were watching a hearing of the June 4 vigil (commemorating Tiananmen Massacre) of organizer Chow Hang-Tung in January. They…


Hong Kong Judge Orders the Tiananmen Massacre Be Referred to as ‘June 4th Incident’

A member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKA), which the Hong Kong government caused to disband, is in court for refusing a National Security Office request, made in 2021, to hand over information. When former HKA vice-chairman Chow Hang-tung used the words “Tiananmen massacre” and “killing” when…


Poll Shows Support for June 4 Vindication Down, China’s Human Rights Climb; National Security Law Resulting in Self-censorship to Avoid Legal Trouble 

This year marks the 33rd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre; it is the first June 4th without the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HK Alliance), after its disbandment.  As we are proceeding halfway along the “50 years unchanged” of the Basic Law, 2022 is the second year that…