Security was tight and access to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday (Jun 4) was restricted on the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in the Chinese capital.

Tiananmen Square anniversary: Tight security in China and Hong Kong; Taiwan says will never forget crackdown

Hong Kong University students hold a small act of rebellion against the Chinese government crackdown, hiding tiny figures of a "democracy goddess" on campus to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Tiananmen Square massacre: University students rebel, hide 'goddess of democracy' statues around campus

For some years now, the discussion of the 1989 clampdown when the Chinese government set tanks and troops on peaceful protestors is all but forbidden in mainland China.

Tiananmen Square Massacre: What really happened in 1989?

Three leaders of a group behind Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigil were charged Thursday with inciting subversion following an earlier police raid at the museum the group ran commemorating Beijing's deadly crackdown in 1989.

Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil leaders charged with 'inciting subversion'

Searches for the famous Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' protest photo came up empty on Microsoft search engine Bing on Friday, raising censorship concerns on the anniversary of the deadly crackdown.

Famed 'Tank Man' photo vanishes from Bing search engine

Hong Kong police on Friday arrested activist Chow Hang Tung, vice-chairwoman of the group which organises annual vigils for the victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, two of her colleagues said.

Organiser of annual Tiananmen Square vigil in Hong Kong arrested on massacre's 32nd anniversary

Here is a timeline of developments since China imposed national security legislation in Hong Kong last year, making anything Beijing regards as subversion, secession, terrorism or colluding with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison.

Timeline: The impact of the national security law on Hong Kong

As the international communities raised their voices against China’s crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen, China has slammed the US and has asked the country to "look in the mirror".

'Look in the mirror': China asks US to 'face up' to own human rights abuse

Hong Kong police detained prominent democracy activist Chow Hang-tung on Friday morning, with authorities determined to prevent any protests on the anniversary of Beijing's deadly Tiananmen crackdown.

Hong Kong police detain democracy leader on Tiananmen anniversary

Zoom Video Communications temporarily shut the account belonging to a group of US-based Chinese activists after they held an event to commemorate the 31st anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Zoom suspends US-based activists' account after Tiananmen event

The tremors of the Tiananmen Square massacre were felt beyond the borders of China and it coincided with tectonic shifts in international politics even as at home Beijing crushed the movement and toppled its symbol.

How Tiananmen Square massacre impacted Communist regimes around the world

The Tiananmen Square massacre is something China wants the world to forget. On June 4, 1989, the Chinese military entered Beijing's Tiananmen Square and crushed a pro-democracy movement.

31 years after Tiananmen Square massacre, China stifles Hong Kong

Tens of thousands of people across Hong Kong lit candles and chanted democracy slogans on Thursday to commemorate China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown, defying a ban against gathering as tensions seethed over a planned new security law.

Mass protests in Hong Kong over Tiananmen massacre

In an exclusive conversation with WION, Chan Ching Wa, an eyewitness to the Tiananmen massacre described the horror as it happened in front of his eyes 31 years ago.

Hong Kong protests is Tiananmen Square in slow motion: Tiananmen massacre survivor

Thursday marks 31 years since China suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Chinese troops opened fire on their own people -- making the event a taboo topic of discussion in mainland China ever since.

From brutal Tiananmen crackdown to China's re-emergence: A timeline of events

Thursday marks the anniversary of when China suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing's Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops opened fire on their own people.

Hong Kong plans to commemorate fraught Tiananmen crackdown by China on Thursday

China has refused to apologise for the for the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing and called Taiwan's condition as ''nonense'' Thursday marks 31 years since Chinese troops opened fire to end the student-led unrest in and around the square.

Beijing slams Taiwan’s call on China to apologise for Tiananmen crackdown as 'nonsense'

30 years after Tiananmen massacre, China maintains silence and censorship

China must "sincerely repent" for the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square three decades ago, Taiwan said on Monday, as a Chinese newspaper said nobody in China was interested in dragging up the past.

Taiwan urges China to 'repent' for Tiananmen, China paper says event is merely history

The United States said Monday it had lost hope for human rights progress in China 30 years after the crackdown on Tiananmen Square as Beijing, in rare official comments on the bloodshed, insisted it had "immunized" itself against turmoil.

Post-Tiananmen, Chinese citizens subjected to new wave of abuses: US

Tiananmen's key moments: Hope crushed by soldiers and tanks

Twitter Inc has apologised for suspending accounts critical of Chinese government policy days ahead of the 30th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on protesters at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, after an outcry among users.

Twitter apologises for blocked China accounts ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday that the bloody crackdown on protesters around Beijing`s Tiananmen Square 30 years ago was the "correct" decision, citing the country`s "stability" since then.

Chinese defence minister says Tiananmen crackdown was justified

'Minimum estimate of civilian dead 10,000,' the then British ambassador Alan Donald said in the secret telegram to London

At least 10,000 killed In 1989 Tiananmen crackdown: British diplomatic cable