Participants at the 180,000-strong Tiananmen Square Massacre Candlelight Vigil in Hong Kong hold up candles and posters, commemorating the victims.

That was only months after the Tiananmen massacre in Beijing, which drew such a forceful backlash in the United States that the Chinese regime found it hard to project its narratives through official state agencies.

DeepSeek has also been accused of censoring responses to political questions, such as ones regarding the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. When asked about the massacre, the app stated, "Let's talk about something else.”

People were filled with fear when hearing the words ‘Falun Gong,’ especially after the Tiananmen self-immolation incident.

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Let us fast forward 30 years to focus on the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. When this opinion piece is out, we will approach the 34th Tiananmen suppression in 1989.

Liu’s father, Arthur Liu, came to the United States in the 1990s after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing and later receiving political asylum.

Besides refusing to generate pictures of white people, the tool also declines to produce photos that the Chinese regime deems sensitive, such as images of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2019.

(The Journey to Tiananmen) The 36 Falun Gong practitioners from 12 countries are surrounded by Chinese police officers and police vehicles in Tiananmen Square after unfurling a banner reading "Truth - Compassion - Tolerance" and sitting in a meditation

Plainclothes policemen watch as a female Falun Gong practitioner resists arrest while being forced by police toward a police van, in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on May 11, 2000.

A senior citizen in Beijing was so upset that he intentionally rode an electric tricycle into the Tiananmen Square restricted area.

In the broadcast, five people were seen setting themselves on fire on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Truth of the Tiananmen Square Massacre In one of his internet surfings in 2016, Liu saw a documentary about the CCP’s suppression of students’ protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Only a few years had passed since the Tiananmen Square massacre, when Chinese police opened fire on pro-democracy student demonstrators, and many democracies shunned the communist regime at the time. The dinner was a “signal” to Beijing, Mr.

“In the 34 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, the CCP has continued to commit human rights abuses against its citizens. We must remain vigilant against the threats of the CCP.”

(Right) Chinese police detain a Falun Gong practitioner on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in this file photo.

President Vladimir Putin walks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing's Tiananmen

A Chinese man, now known as "Tank Man," stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace, during the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 5, 1989.

After the Chinese regime sent tanks and soldiers to kill students calling for democracy in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, key leaders of the Chinese Communist Party were busy making strategies to turn public opinion in their favor.

He said at the trial that he gave up on democratic rule under the CCP after seeing tanks run over students in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

The DF-61 intercontinental ballistic missile is seen during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on Sept. 3, 2025.

But the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre changed everything for him. After witnessing the brutal suppression of students and civilians demanding democracy, Lai made an irreversible decision: He chose conscience over comfort.

The series also revisits the 2001 “Tiananmen Square self-immolation,” labeling it a staged event used to demonize Falun Gong.

Police detain a Falun Gong practitioner as a crowd gathers around in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2000.

The right to protest and commemorate tragedies such as the Tiananmen Massacre has been stripped away in Hong Kong, leaving deep scars. In Taiwan, freedom is palpable.

When asked, “What happened in Beijing on June 4, 1989,” the app did not mention the massacre of student pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square on that day. Instead, the app responded: “I am sorry, I cannot answer that question.

The memorial, a replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue erected by Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989, honors the more than 100 million people killed under communist regimes since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

After Deng crushed the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Jiang Zemin became the CCP’s top leader and tied family planning quotas directly to officials' performance evaluations—under a strict "one-vote veto" system—to implement more stringent birth control

“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them," he said.

shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping (C) walking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin (center L) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center R) before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen