Published: June 03, 2019
Thirty years after bloody crackdown, visitors have IDs checked and journalists are warned against taking pictures
China marked 30 years since the deadly Tiananmen crackdown on Tuesday with a wall of silence and extra security after arresting activists and tightening internet censorship in the run-up to the politically sensitive anniversary.
On a grey, overcast day, police checked the identification cards of every tourist and commuter leaving the subway near Tiananmen Square, the site of the pro-democracy protests that were brutally extinguished by tanks and soldiers on 4 June, 1989.
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