25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests 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 June 2, 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. 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
Reactions to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests accounts refer to. As Louisa Lim notes in her book, "The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited", many young Chinese know almost nothing of the Tiananmen Square protests. In an informal survey, Lim showed the iconic photo of Tank Man to 100 Chinese university students; only 15 correctly identified it as being an image of Tiananmen Square. Perry Link, a Chinese language and literature scholar, writes, "The story of the massacre is banned from textbooks, the media, and all other public contexts." In 2014, Gu Yimin, a Chinese activist, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to hold