25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
2014 Chinese commemoration
The 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was principally events that occurred in China and elsewhere on and leading up to 4 June 2014—to commemorate the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
On 2 June, at least 1,900 participants attended a protest in Hong Kong to remember the 1989 student protest movement and to demand an end to one-party rule in China.
Detainees
In the run-up to the anniversary, the authorities in the People's Republic of China detained and silenced dissidents as in previous years. Targets included lawyers, human rights activists, and journalists, among others. Amnesty International estimates a total of 58 individuals: 18 criminally detained, 20 placed under house arrest, 10 missing and believed to be detained, and 10 forced by police to travel to different cities in China. One prominent dissident included human rights lawyer and free speech advocate Pu Zhiqiang, detained on the charge of "causing a disturbance" after attending a meeting urging a probe of the 1989 crackdown.
Censorship
Google and its affiliated services were blocked in mainland China on 2 June.
Official response in China
China defended the 1989 crackdown on 3 June. In a daily news briefing, foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei announced that "The Chinese government long ago reached a conclusion about the political turmoil at the end of the 1980s... In the last three decades and more of reform and opening up, China's enormous achievements in social and economic development have received worldwide attention.
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