Beijing Tightens Security Around Late PM's House
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2019-10-17 HKT 10:54
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Security is exceptionally tight around the house of the late leader chief Zhao Ziyang, on what would have been his 100th birthday.
Mainland police and plain-clothed officers lined the streets around the home of the former premier in Beijing, and banned everyone but his family members and former colleagues from entering to pay tribute.
Zhao, who was considered a reformist icon of the Communist Party, had opposed sending tanks into Tiananmen Square where students demanding democracy were protesting on June 4, 1989.
He was purged from the party after the failed student uprising and spent the rest of his life under virtual house arrest. He died in 2005.
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