BEIJING, June 4 — Security was tight and access restricted to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday, the 35th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown, while Hong Kong also...
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Decades after the military crackdown, rights activists say the demonstrators’ original goals — including a free press and freedom of speech — remain distant, and June 4 is still a taboo topic in China. In Beijing, an official website for the Tiananmen Tower overlooking the square, posted a notice earlier saying it would be closed for the entire day on June 4, and that those who had bought tickets could get them refunded.Time slots for visits to Tiananmen Square also weren’t reservable for June 4 on its official WeChat mini-app. Chang’an Avenue, the road lining the square, was closed to pedestrians and cyclists on Monday evening, according to an eyewitness.
“Thirty-five years have passed, and the authorities remain silent. All that can be seen on the internet is ‘A Concise History of the Communist Party of China’, which says that a tragic incident was caused by the student movement in 1989,” wrote the Tiananmen Mothers, a group of over 100 mostly China-based survivors and families of the victims of the Tiananmen crackdown.
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