In the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China is censoring foreign media and the internet to an extent not seen since the crackdown that preceded the Beijing Olympics.
Government agencies are banning delivery of foreign newspapers, disrupting satellite news broadcasts and blocking internet sites including Twitter and Hotmail in a campaign apparently aimed at extinguishing every reference to the 1989 pro-democracy student movement, which the People’s Liberation Army suppressed on June 4 of that year.
