The 68-year-old was arrested near a park where thousands used to meet to mourn pro-democracy protesters killed in Beijing in 1989.
HONG KONG – Police in Hong Kong arrested a woman for chanting slogans on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, using a new domestic national security law for the first time on a protester.
The enforcement action represented the first use of a security law fast-tracked in March against a demonstrator, adding to a recent flurry of cases that could redefine where authorities draw the line between acceptable speech and sedition in the once-freewheeling finance hub.was first invoked last week in the arrests of eight people over social media posts about the bloody suppression 35 years ago.
The extensive efforts to prevent public commemoration of the event were a far cry from what Hong Kong used to allow before China imposed a national security law on the former British colony in 2020, following Foreign diplomats in the city observed the occasion with social media posts and visits to the site of the discontinued annual gathering in acts Beijing criticised as “provocations”.
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