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17th Tiananmen anniversary passes in China

Chinese police tore up a protester’s poster and detained at least two people on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Sunday as the country marked 17 years since local troops crushed a pro-democracy demonstration in the public space. An elderly woman tried to pull out a poster with apparently political material written on it, but police ripped it up and then took her away in a van. A farmer tried to stage a protest apparently unrelated to the 1989 crackdown, but he also was taken away in a van. Full Story