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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent

Chinese censors remove protest site Sitong Bridge from online maps

Smoke rises as a banner with a protest message hangs off Sitong Bridge in Beijing in October 2022
Smoke rises as a banner with a protest message hangs off Sitong Bridge in Beijing last October. Photograph: Reuters

Chinese censors scrubbing the internet of any words or symbols that could be used to reference the Tiananmen Square massacre in the run-up to Sunday’s anniversary have a new target in their sights: a bridge in Beijing where a rare protest was staged last year.

As the 34th anniversary of the 1989 massacre approaches, anyone searching in Chinese for Sitong Bridge on Baidu maps will draw a blank.

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