Tiananmen Square: China steps up curbs on activists for 30th anniversary
Government’s critics say controls are more severe: ‘They know the 30th anniversary means a lot’
Every year in late May, Hu Jia is taken on a mandatory holiday to Qinhuangdao, a port city almost 200 miles from his home in Beijing. He is accompanied by police on walks in the park or by the sea and is always in view of a minder. Hu returns to the capital only after 4 June, the anniversary of the Chinese government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.
Hu, one of China’s most prominent political activists, has been under house arrest for years in part
