The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said two editors and three assistant editors at the station headquartered in southern China's Guangdong Province were suspended for making ''political mistakes'' after its news program showed a 10-second segment of the candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on June 4.

The Tiananmen Square massacre remains taboo in the mainland and no mention of the incident or even wording about ''June 4'' is allowed during the anniversary period each year when media receive explicit instructions and websites are screened.

Hong Kong's four free-to-air television channels are allowed to be broadcast live in a limited number of southern mainland cities and most hotels, but any reports in the news programs deemed ''inappropriate,'' such as June 4 memorials or democracy marches on July 1, are edited out and local commercials awkwardly fill the void.

The Hong Kong-based center said higher level management of the station will also likely be reprimanded for the staff members' failure to edit out the material.

A female staff member at the station who did not want to be identified said by telephone she would rather not comment on the ''sensitive'' issue, but she admitted a few staff members were suspended.

She said, however, they were not on the editorial staff.

==Kyodo