25 years of the tragedy of the anti -corruption movement in Tiananmen student , tightened security in Beijing

Remembering Tiananmen student movement stems from demanding the eradication of corruption in the Chinese government .

25 years of the tragedy of the anti -corruption movement in Tiananmen student , tightened security in Beijing


Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers deployed to several locations around Tiananmen Square , Beijing , China . The move was taken to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen tragedy .

BBC correspondent in Beijing , Carrie Gracie , report the number of security personnel around Tiananmen Square China looks to increase dramatically when compared to the previous days .

Automatic guns soldiers and policemen in blue uniforms supervise civilians in the field with a watchful gaze . Some of them were randomly checking people 's identity .

Foreign journalists were not spared from scrutiny . Everything is evicted and escorted out of Tiananmen Square .

Chinese officials take seriously warnings Tiananmen tragedy . The last few days , the police intensified raids Click assessed against a number of individual political dissidents .

A number of lawyers , journalists , and activists have been arrested , such as an Australian artist born in China , Guo Jiang , who was arrested on Monday ( 02 / 06 ) the day after the interview was published newspaper The Financial Times . BBC