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Friday, 04 June 2021
** Tiananmen candlelights a sight
too beautiful to last
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Candlelight vigil in Hong Kong, 2016. Photo: Sueddeutsche Zeitung / Alamy Stock Photo
For 30 years in a row after the 4 June bloodshed in Beijing, Hong Kong people had turned out en masse at Victoria Park, the city’s central park, to commemorate the victims of the killings at and around Tiananmen Square in the summer of 1989. Not this year, writes Chris Yeung ([link removed]) .
** Why journalists and dissidents turn to Telegram
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Photo: Chrtistian Wiediger/Pixabay
Telegram, and other encrypted messaging services, are crucial for those intending to organise protests in countries where there is a severe crackdown on free speech: Myanmar, Belarus and Hong Kong have all seen people relying on the services, writes Benjamin Lynch ([link removed]) .
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** "Tiananmen Square cemented my commitment to equality and justice"
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[link removed]‘Tank Man’, the image that is now synonymous with the events of Tiananmen Square, which shows an unarmed man seeking to block the movement of a tank, is both awful and awe-inspiring; it affected many around the world in the decades that followed the 1989 massacre, including our CEO Ruth Smeeth ([link removed]) , who says it helped shape her view of the world and her belief in freedom of expression.
Illustration; Badiucao
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** China's global brand: a century of silencing dissent
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Index looks back on 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party and how their censorship continues to shape the lives of people around the world and threaten their right to free speech. Inside are articles by exiled writer Ma Jian ([link removed]) , Clive Priddle ([link removed]) on whether Simon and Schuster's decision not to publish Senator Josh Hawley's book is censorship and an exclusive short story ([link removed]) from acclaimed writer Shalom Auslander.
Index on Censorship defends people's freedom to express themselves without fear of harm or persecution. We publish censored writers and artists, monitor and campaign against censorship, and encourage debate.
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