Security Tight in Hong Kong, China on Tiananmen Crackdown Anniversary
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4 June 2024 19:49 WIB
INCREASED SECURITY
Small groups of "stability maintenance" volunteers, or retirees with red armbands, have kept watch in central Beijing neighborhoods since last week.
Guards have also been stationed on pedestrian bridges, a regular practice during politically sensitive periods.
On Chinese social media platforms including WeChat and Douyin, users were unable to change their profile photographs, according to online posts and Reuters tests.
In the past, some online users have altered profile names and pictures with symbolic images such as candles around June 4.
"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.
"We cannot accept or tolerate such statements that ignore the facts," added the group of more than 100 mostly China-based survivors and families of the victims of the Tiananmen crackdown.
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong highlighted the "brutal force" used against student protesters 35 years ago while expressing concern about China's curbs on human rights.
"We call on China to cease suppression of freedoms of expression, assembly, media and civil society and to release those detained for peacefully expressing their political views," Wong said in a statement.
REUTERS
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