Ahead of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, authorities in Hong Kong are removing books that China deems sensitive from library shelves.
— more than 40 percent of documentaries, magazines and books involving “political themes” have vanished from Hong Kong’s libraries, according to Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao.A search by The Washington Post of the library system’s online archive in Chinese and in English using keywords such as “June 4, 1989,” “89 movement” and “Tiananmen Square” yielded no results about the crackdown.
“What libraries need to do is to ensure that there’s no breach of any laws in Hong Kong, including of course, copyrights etc., and also if they spread any kind of messages that are not in the interests of Hong Kong,” said Lee.
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