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Ahead of the 37th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, relatives of victims in Beijing say authorities are restricting memorial activities. According to documents obtained by Radio Free Asia, members of the Tiananmen Mothers group were told not to visit graves, hold services, read eulogies or share tribute photos.
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00:00Ahead of the 37th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, mothers
00:06of the victims in Beijing have faced warning notices not to visit their children's graves.
00:11According to documents obtained by Radio Free Asia, the group known as Tiananmen Mothers
00:16received notices from local authorities not to hold services, read eulogies or share tribute
00:22photos this year.
00:23They're urging the authorities to rescind the notice.
00:25The Tiananmen Square massacre, in which the Chinese military killed hundreds of pro-democracy
00:30student protesters in Beijing, is still highly censored in China.
00:34Taiwan holds the last remaining Tiananmen memorial in the Chinese-speaking world.
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