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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
As
Beijing seeks to quell discussion of 1989, three protesters and an
expert on Chinese politics discuss how the massacre has shaped today's
China, the alternative courses that the country might have taken and the
prospects for political reform
Soldiers face to face with student demonstrators during 1989's Tiananmen Square protests. Photograph: Peter Turnley/CORBIS
Tania Branigan
Tuesday 3 June 2014
The anniversary has been preceded by
scores of detentions, with others placed under house arrest. Some
detainees have been charged with offences carrying prison terms of
several years for holding a private memorial gathering. Google services have been disrupted and police have warned some foreign journalists they face unspecified consequences for covering sensitive issues.Twenty-five years after the bloody military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, China is
seeking to quell all discussion of the massacre by locking up, charging
or harassing artists, scholars, lawyers, bloggers and relatives of
victims.
