Beijing's Tiananmen Square had checkpoints and police vehicles on Tuesday as China tried to silence the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong police arrested four people and swarmed a handful of others who tried to protest or commemorate as the effort extended beyond the mainland.
Participants attend a candlelight vigil at Democracy Square in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to mark the 35th anniversary of the Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. BEIJING -- Beijing's Tiananmen Square had checkpoints and police vehicles on Tuesday as China tried to silence the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
The economy boomed in the ensuing decades, turning a once impoverished country into the world's second largest economy, but societal controls have been tightened since party leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Tiananmen Mothers, a group formed by families of the victims, made an online appeal to the Chinese government to publish the names and total number of those who died, grant compensation to the victims and their relatives and pursue legal accountability for those responsible.
"It's different from the past," said Hong Kong resident Keith Law. "Many people seem to act as if there's nothing happening, including myself." Late Tuesday, police said they arrested four people aged between 23 and 69. Among them was a 68-year-old woman detained on suspicion of sedition under the city's new national security law. Police said she had chanted slogans in public.
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