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Senator warns CCP response to protests could carry shades of Tiananmen Square
Fianna Fáil’s Malcolm Byrne fears surveillance of the largest protests since the 1989 massacre will lead to a similar brutal crackdown
An Irish politician and member of an international alliance of lawmakers has raised concerns about the safety of those protesting against China’s strict ‘Zero Covid’ policy.
Malcolm Byrne, the Fianna Fáil senator and member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), said the protests were likely the largest since those in 1989 at Tiananmen Square which ended in the massacre of hundreds, some say thousands, of people.
Speaking to the Business Post, Byrne said he ...