Tiananmen Square protests were student-led protests that took place in 1989 in China. The protests started in Beijing and rapidly spread to 400 cities nation wide. The protests were brutally suppressed, with a large number of protesters imprisoned. Foreign journalists were deported and independent coverage of the event was halted. Even wide ranging changes were made in the leadership structures of the ruling communist party. Officials sympathetic of protesters were fired. Even to this day any discussion or remembrance of the event is prohibited.
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