{"id":29208,"date":"2020-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/press\/video-statement-on-31st-anniversary-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-4681\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:57:52","slug":"video-statement-on-31st-anniversary-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-4681","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/press\/video-statement-on-31st-anniversary-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-4681\/","title":{"rendered":"Video statement on 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d26732372fd1ca03761484c9992425aa.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>In a video statement to mark the 31<sup>st<\/sup> anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China on 4 June 2020, CSW\u2019s Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas says: <i>\u201cCSW, together with organisations and individuals around the world, will be remembering this event and standing in solidarity with family members of victims who are still waiting for justice.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June 1989, Chinese army troops brutally supressed peaceful protests for freedom and democracy, killing and wounding thousands of people in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">31 years later, victims\u2019 family members continue to await justice, and the situation for human rights in China continues to deteriorate significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uorQi9zaZXY?rel=0\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSW, together with organisations and individuals around the world, will be remembering this event and standing in solidarity with family members of victims who are still waiting for justice.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43345,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[131,128],"class_list":["post-29208","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-china","regions-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39792,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29208\/revisions\/39792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29208"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=29208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}