The popular social media site often provides a platform for journalists and Chinese citizens to discuss news and contentious issues that mainstream press are barred from reporting on. A set of documents provided to CPJ by a former employee in Weibo’s censorship department however, sheds light on how the site must tread a fine line between appeasing government censors and encouraging users to keep posting to its site.
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fotojournalismus:
Tiananmen Square, 1989.
Photographs by Patrick Zachmann
Chinese journalist Gao Yu sentenced to seven years
A Beijing court today convicted Chinese journalist Gao Yu of leaking state secrets and handed her a seven-year sentence, according to news reports. Gao, a freelance journalist, has written about Chinese politics, the economy, and social trends for Chinese media in Hong Kong and overseas. She was arrested in April 2014, a few months before the 25th anniversary of the crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
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fotojournalismus:
As Hong Kong recalls Tiananmen killings, China muffles dissent
Tens of thousands of people hold a vigil in Hong Kong on June 4, 2014 to mark the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters 25 years ago in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Public discussion of Tiananmen is forbidden in China and online references to it are heavily censored, leaving many of the country’s youth ignorant of what happened. “I had never heard of the Tiananmen incident until I was studying in the United States when I was 18,” said a 25-year-old woman, who was visiting Hong Kong from Beijing.
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fotojournalismus:
Liu Heung Shing, Tiananmen Square, A couple takes cover at an underpass as tanks pass overhead in eastern Beijing, June 5, 1989.
asiasociety:
Tiananmen at 25: Looking Back on a Dark Day in China’s History
Susan Jakes, editor of Asia Society’s ChinaFile website, offers some recommended reading on this 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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breakingnews:
Crowds gather to remember Tiananmen anniversary
NBC News: Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Wednesday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Photo: Tiananmen Square Commemoration in Hong Kong (IAN WILLIAMS/NBC NEWS)
fotojournalismus:
Peter Turnley, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989.
newyorker:
Twenty-five years later, a look at powerful photographs of the Tiananmen Square protests, and the government crackdown that followed: http://nyr.kr/1kEVKfN
Above: People’s Liberation Army soldiers leap over a barrier on Tiananmen Square, on June 4, 1989. Photograph by Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty.
