TV staff rapped for June 4 footage

June 20, 2009 Several staff at a Chinese television station were suspended from their jobs after footage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests slipped past censors and was broadcast to the public, a human rights group said on Friday. Chinese media outlets are barred from mentioning the crackdown around Beijing's Tiananmen Square that killed hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators. [...] a cable television operator in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou allowed around 10 seconds of sensitive footage from a Hong Kong broadcaster to slip into a Chinese public broadcast on the evening of June 5.

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