Hidden For 37 Years, 2,000+ Tiananmen Square Protest Photos Made Public | Watch

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• Hidden For 37 Years, 2,000+ Tiananmen Square Protest Photos Made Public | Watch Published By, Last Updated: June 05, 2026, 12:47 IST The newly released collection features scenes from protest camps, interactions among demonstrators, and moments from hunger strike that became a symbol of the movement.
• Rapid Read News18 Over two thousand photographs from the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, unseen by the public for nearly four decades, have now surfaced, shedding fresh light on a defining moment in modern Chinese history.
• The archive, comprising more than 2,000 images, was reportedly created by a photographer employed by a Chinese state media organisation during the protests.
• For years, the negatives remained hidden from authorities before eventually making their way out of China and being published by The Epoch Times.
• The photographs trace the evolution of the demonstrations that drew large crowds to the heart of Beijing in the spring of 1989....