Randy W Posted June 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2020 The Global Times mentions the Tiananmen Square incident on Twitter Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2020 from the Shanghaiist Thousands of Hong Kongers defy ban to attend annual Tiananmen vigil The vigil had been canceled, ostensibly because of coronavirus restrictions on large-scale gatherings The yearly vigil had technically been canceled after the Hong Kong government extended coronavirus-inspired regulations against large-scale public gatherings. One of its organizers had spoken about possibly having people around the city light up candles outside their homes on the night of June 4. Instead, people decided to just push over the metal fences surrounding Victoria Park and have their usual vigil anyway. Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 (edited) from Tsai Ing-Wen on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/46251501064/posts/10156779055016065/ Quote 在地球上其他地方，每一分就有60秒^去。 可是在中恳荒s只有364日子，有一天被z忘掉了。 ^去在台ž常也曾有S多日子，不能出F在日焉厦妫一一把它找回砹恕Ｒž槲不必再[匿v史，所以我可以共同思索未怼 希望@世界上每一角落、每一片土地，都不要再有消失的日子。也祝福香港。 #自由的台ž蜗愀鄣淖杂 Elsewhere on Earth, 60 seconds pass every minute. But in China, there are only 364 days a year, one day forgotten. In the past, in Taiwan, we had many days, not on the calendar, but we one by one to find them back. Because we no longer have to hide history, we can think about the future together. I hope that every corner of the world, every piece of land, there will be no more days to disappear. Blessings to Hong Kong. #自由的台ž蜗愀鄣淖杂 Edited June 5, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history) Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2020 from the SCMP Tiananmen vigil organisers ‘to be prosecuted for Hong Kong gathering’ At least three of the organisers face charge of inciting people on June 4 to take part in an unauthorised assemblyThousands flocked to Victoria Park to mark the crackdown’s anniversary after the annual vigil was banned on public health grounds“We were not holding an assembly. We were only asking people to go to the park to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown by themselves,” Ho said. After police banned – for the first time in 30 years – the alliance’s application for the annual assembly on public health grounds, the organisers said they would instead hold the event in groups of eight, the limit for public gatherings under Covid-19 restrictions. Police sources had said attempts to get around the law by meeting in that way would fail if the total number of people gathering for a common purpose in a public place exceeded that figure. Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2020 Even an online "gathering" was censored (but later restored) - from Abacus Zoom restores account of Chinese activists hosting Tiananmen memorial US-based video conferencing app had shut down a paid account belonging to Chinese dissidents gathered for a Zoom meeting remembering 1989's June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy activists The event on May 31 saw participants dial in from China to listen to the testimonies of a number of people tied to the events of June 4, including the mother of a slain protester, a Beijing resident imprisoned for 17 years for his participation, and multiple exiled student leaders. On June 7, organizers discovered that the paid Zoom account that they set up for the forum had been disabled, said Zhou Fengsuo, a US-based human rights activist and president of Humanitarian China, the group that hosted the event. The company did not respond to requests to elaborate on what laws had been broken and whether it had decided to disable the account after being contacted by Chinese authorities. . . . The company did not respond to requests to elaborate on what laws had been broken and whether it had decided to disable the account after being contacted by Chinese authorities. Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 Days from the June 4 anniversary, Hong Kong's museum commemorating China's crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters has been forced to close. Read more: sc.mp/qe05 The museum had opened on May 30, according to the video from the SCMP on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/486809825737236/ Tiananmen vigil organisers close June 4 museum after government launches licensing probe ‘We have decided to temporarily shut down the museum until further notice for the safety of staff and visitors’, the operator says Officials earlier launched an investigation into the museum after operator was accused of not holding a licence for the premises Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2021 scmpnews The resolve of pro-democracy Hongkongers faces a milestone test this June 4, as police enforce a ban on the Tiananmen anniversary vigil at Victoria Park and deploy thousands of officers across the city to prevent any defiant gatherings. Although no one is expecting candle-bearing Hongkongers to show up in their tens of thousands like in years past, supporters of the movement hope there will be at least some show of solidarity even as organisers have urged people not to gather at the park and even called off an online memorial for fear of flouting the law. For the second year running, Hong Kong authorities have banned the vigil, citing public health concerns arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. More about how this year’s vigil could become a test case of the limits of protest in the national security law era at link in bio. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPr99Qete64/?utm_medium=copy_link View this post on Instagram A post shared by South China Morning Post (@scmpnews) Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2021 scmpnews Instead of a sea of candles, Hong Kong's Victoria Park loomed dark and empty on June 4, 2021. The park was ringed by metal fences and police officers out in full force to stop people gathering for a banned vigil commemorating the Tiananmen Square crackdown. For the first time in 32 years, the traditional display of candles was nowhere in sight. Some Hongkongers could still be spotted on the streets across the city, striving to keep alive the decades-long tradition in their own way. 📷: SCMP/Robert Ng https://www.instagram.com/p/CPsqmzfN9cC/?utm_medium=copy_link View this post on Instagram A post shared by South China Morning Post (@scmpnews) Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2021 scmpnews Hongkongers commemorated the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown with scattered pockets of defiance. Some shouted pro-independence slogans on the streets, lit candles or flashed their phone lights in public, while others attended church gatherings after heavy police presence stopped them from holding a large-scale annual vigil for the first time in 31 years. Police banned the gathering at Victoria Park for the second straight year citing Covid-19 restrictions, but this time they locked down the venue. Still, many took to the streets in scattered and highly mobile protests, playing cat and mouse with police in scenes reminiscent of the 2019 anti-government demonstrations. Read more at link in bio. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPtQsUYJZ05/?utm_medium=copy_link View this post on Instagram A post shared by South China Morning Post (@scmpnews) Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 Chinese Internet Regulators Investigate Startup After Tiananmen Square Anniversary Post Buzzy startup Xiaohongshu’s Weibo account blocked after message posted on 32nd anniversary of the crackdown A Xiaohongshu display at the Big Data Expo in Guiyang, China, in May 2019. PHOTO: CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/REUTERS from the WSJ Quote Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu—which means “Little Red Book” in Chinese and is backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd.—wrote in a post on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform on June 4, “Tell me loudly, what is the date today?” The Friday post, which was shared on the 32nd anniversary of the day that Chinese troops crushed peaceful student protests in Tiananmen Square, was quickly deleted. By midnight Friday in China, Xiaohongshu’s entire Weibo account—which had 14 million followers—had disappeared, replaced by a message that said the account was unavailable for suspected violations of laws and regulations. Xiaohongshu, which has been described as a combination of an Instagram-like social media platform and an Amazon-style e-commerce site, is working with the Cyberspace Administration of China to conduct an internal investigation of the incident, according to people briefed on the matter. It isn’t clear what the original intent of the Xiaohongshu social media post was, though one of the people familiar with the matter said the post wasn’t intended to refer to the events of 1989. In recent months, Xiaohongshu had made similar posts on Fridays to celebrate the coming weekend. An investigation, especially one deemed politically sensitive to China’s government, could complicate any plans by the firm to list its shares in the U.S. Technology news outlet The Information reported in March that Xiaohongshu had hired a former Citigroup executive as its chief financial officer and was in discussions with several banks for an initial public offering that could value the company at more than $10 billion. Xiaohongshu has said it has no IPO plans. In recent years, Chinese internet regulators have stepped up their online scrutiny around June 4. Social media posts alluding to dates, images and names associated with the protests are automatically deleted. Users aren’t allowed to update their profile pictures on popular social media platforms like messaging service WeChat, frustrating users who had previously marked the occasion by changing their avatars to depict a lighted candle. This year, as in years past, several embassies in Beijing, including the U.K.’s, posted an image of a burning candle on their Weibo pages. The posts were quickly snuffed out, though similar posts on Twitter, which can only be accessed in China using virtual private networks, remained online. Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary quiet again in Hong Kong Since 1990, football pitches in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park were used to commemorate the June 4, 1989, crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Such activities were effectively banned in 2020 because of the pandemic and in 2022 the park was sealed off by police. from the SCMP on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/1356560868160712/ Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2022 (edited) China censored a top livestreamer on the eve of June 4. Now his fans are asking about the Tiananmen Square massacre from CNN Chinese livestreamer Li Jiaqi and his co-host present a plate of ice cream that looks like a tank during his show on the eve of June 4. Quote "What on earth happened to Li Jiaqi? All of a sudden his livestream is gone. Can anyone who knows about it tell us?" a user asked on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform. It is possible that Li himself, born in 1992, was also unaware of the symbolism. Having made his name as the "Lipstick King" after selling 15,000 lipsticks in just five minutes in 2018, Li had been careful to stay in the good books of authorities. As many of his peers have found out, a careless political mistake risks losing business sponsorships or worse. . . . But the promised livestreams never came. On Sunday, Li failed to show up for another scheduled show, further confounding and worrying fans. On Monday, a search for Li's name no longer returned relevant results on Taobao, the online shopping site where Li's show was live streamed. He boasts 60 million followers on the site. CNN has reached out for comments from Mei One, Li's agency; Unilever, the British multinational that owns Wall's; and Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant that owns Taobao. On Weibo, posts and comments linking the suspension of Li's broadcast to the tank-shaped ice cream started to proliferate. Some fans said they found out about the sensitivity of the tank symbol by circumventing China's Great Firewall of online censorship, alluding to the massacre as "that event." The discussions happened in veiled terms under the watchful eyes of censors, and many of them disappeared soon after they were posted. Edited June 6, 2022 by Randy W (see edit history) Link to comment
Randy W Posted June 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2022 Beijing’s foreign ministry in Hong Kong hits back at Western consulates over messages marking Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary Office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Commissioner in Hong Kong expresses ‘strong disapproval and firm opposition’ in letter sent to one of the consulates Senior European diplomat based in Hong Kong confirms having received letter, says he has heard some of the bloc’s consulates also received such a note from the SCMP Electric candles are displayed by the windows of the US consulate building in Central on Saturday to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Photo: Yik Yeung-man Quote But the appeal, which some Hong Kong-based diplomats said was the first of its kind, fell on deaf ears as several Western consulates issued messages one after another to mark the tragedy on Saturday. British Consul General Brian Davidson also said in a statement he had witnessed the crackdown. “I reflect as well as remember,” he said. . . . Some residents on Saturday chose to mourn the event in a low-key manner, such as carrying flowers or candles, or flashing lights from their mobile phones in the area amid a heavy police presence. The force, which had warned residents not to participate in any “unlawful assembly”, had largely cordoned off the park that night. Six people were arrested that night in connection with efforts to mark the crackdown’s anniversary for offences including allegedly inciting others to participate in an unauthorised assembly, obstructing police officers in the execution of their duties and possession of an offensive weapon. Link to comment
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