Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, 25 years ago

Artist Guo Jian arrested

artnet reports here
CNN report here

Tom Mitchell Lunch with the FT: Guo Jian
'Now an artist creating work out of minced pork and litter, the former soldier and Tiananmen Square protester recalls the horrors of that night in Beijing 25 years ago.'

BBC report on journalist detained

China journalist Gao Yu detained in Tiananmen lead-up

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo

June Fourth in My Body poem by Liu Xiaobo read in English here

CNN report

Ma Jian remembers Tiananmen Square Massacre 4 June 1989

On 4 June 1989, when the Chinese Communist party (CCP) sent 200,000 soldiers in armoured tanks to suppress the peaceful pro-democracy protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, causing hundreds if not thousands of fatalities, it was unimaginable to me and most of my compatriots that, 25 years later, this barbaric regime would still be in power, and the massacre would be rendered a taboo. But despite the party's most ardent efforts to wipe the episode from history, memories of the massacre refuse to be crushed. On the milestone 25th anniversary, Tiananmen is more important than ever.
The Guardian 1 June 2014