Costly date: 64.89 yuan forbidden on Tiananmen June 4 anniversary

China's information blackout about the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests took a new turn on Monday: users of a popular social media app could not send each other money transfers alluding to the anniversary date. Open discussion of the brutal crackdown is forbidden in China, where hundreds -- by some estimates more than a thousand -- died when the Communist Party sent tanks on June 4, 1989 to crush a student-led demonstration calling for democratic reforms. The United States called on China on Monday to disclose how many were killed, drawing a rebuke from Beijing, which brands the protest as a "counter-revolutionary rebellion".

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