Why Will the ‘Tank Man’ Never Ever Die?

There are all kinds of speculation about the Tank Man’s disappearance.  Some say he quietly slipped back into a life of anonymity or migrated to Taiwan, whereas others believe that he was executed by a firing squad or is still serving a prison term. Whatever it may be, the Tank Man is immortal with an iconic status in the pages of world history.

More Hong Kong Universities Take Down Tiananmen Memorials

n memory of the fallen, the Hong Kong statue stood on the CUHK campus for over a decade since 2010. Yet the university said on Dec. 24 that it was n“The university never authorized the display of the statue on its campus, and no organization has claimed responsibility for its maintenance and management,” it said in a statement.ever approved.

Where Has our Dear Tank Man Gone?

Thousands of people were detained, tortured, imprisoned or executed after unfair trials charged with ‘counter-revolutionary’ crimes. The Chinese government has never acknowledged the true events surrounding the Tiananmen massacre. It remains a taboo topic in China, with authorities banning all mention of the protest even today.

China: Still World’s Biggest Prison for Journalists

Reporters Without Borders Twenty-eight years after the ruthless crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989, China’s prisons currently hold more than 100 journalists, citizen journalists, and bloggers, including a Nobel peace laureate and three winners of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)-TV5 Monde Press Freedom Prize. Although the famous video of the […]