Tiananmen Square protests

The People's Democratic Party has launched what it calls a march for 'justice and democracy' in response to President Erdogan's growing crackdown on his critics.

Beijing is waging a campaign of harassment against Chinese activists who seek to testify at the United Nations about repression, while the world body sometimes turns a blind eye or is even complicit, Human Rights Watch has said.

China accused the United States on June 26 of being "haunted by spreading guns" and racial discrimination, in its annual tit-for-tat rebuttal to U.S. criticism of China's human rights record.

Hong Kong authorities said police officers involved in the beating of a pro-democracy protester would be removed from their positions after footage of the overnight incident went viral, sparking outrage

Fearing a police crackdown, Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters bowed to government pressure and said they would lift a blockade of key government buildings

Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 protesters at a sit-in early Wednesday following a huge march that organisers said mobilised half a million people demanding democratic reforms.
      

China's state censors on Thursday scrubbed the Internet of references to commemorations of the Tiananmen crackdown including a huge vigil in Hong Kong, extending a campaign of repression that has seen dozens of critics detained.
      

Chinese authorities have been taking serious measures against the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.