Tiananmen, 20 Years Later

Cyclists ride by a near-deserted Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Foreign journalists were barred from the square, while authorities blocked Web sites such as Twitter and confined dissidents to their homes or forced them to leave Beijing. The efforts aim to prevent commemorations of the protests or remembrances of the hundreds, possibly thousands, who died in the June 3-4, 1989, military assault.

Credit: AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel