Thirty-five years ago, in June 1989, the Chinese government launched a brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, where students, workers, and others had been amassed in non-violent collective action for political and economic reform across China. To this day, no one knows how many were killed, but estimates are in the thousands. China continues to censor all memory of those events from national history – both within the country and beyond its borders.
On the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Boundaries of Expression explores the legacy of the crackdown and the impact of a generation of censorship in a conversation with human rights activist Fengsuo Zhou, a former Tiananmen student leader, and Michael Caster, Asia Digital Programme Manager, ARTICLE 19.
Presenter: Jo Glanville
Producers: Michael Caster and Jo Glanville
Studio manager: Aamir Yaqub
Mixed by Julian Wharton and recorded at Bison Studios, London
Archive: CNN