Beijing magistrates wearing
court uniforms join workers demonstrating in city streets in support of
student hunger strikers gathered at Tiananmen Square, the scene of a
mass pro-democracy protest led by students against the Chinese
government. The April-June 1989 movement was crushed by Chinese troops
when army tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square.

from ChinaFile article by Roderick MacFarquhar (in NYRB), July 1989