http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/blacking-out-180000-candles/
NYT, Market's Echo of Tiananmen Date Sets Off Censors
News of the record turnout for a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on Monday night was above-the-fold news in every English-language paper in the city on Tuesday morning. The mass-circulation tabloid The Standard carried a banner photo over the headline, “Sea of Candles.”
The rally in Victoria Park, an annual event that commemorates the Tiananmen massacre in Beijing on June 4, 1989, drew 180,000 people this year, according to organizers. The police put the crowd at 85,000.
China Daily, published by the Chinese government, did not mention the gathering in its Tuesday editions. Nor did its Web site.
And there was no mention of the vigil by the state news agency Xinhua, as the blackout extended to the Chinese mainland — standard practice with politically sensitive issues and scandals.
There was no gathering reported in Tiananmen Square itself on Monday, nor any evidence of organized “strolling,” a tactic sometimes used by protesters to dodge security officials. The BBC reported that the Chinese police had “arrested activists and placed others under increased surveillance to stop them from marking the anniversary.”
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