Hong Kong police detain more than 20 on Tiananmen anniversary
League of Social Democrats leader Chan Po-ying argues with police officers before being taken away in the Causeway Bay shopping district of Hong Kong on June 4, close to the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. – AFP pic, June 5, 2023.
HONG Kong police yesterday detained more than 20 people, including key pro-democracy figures trying to commemorate the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, as hundreds in Taiwan mourned the dead with a vigil. For years, tens of thousands of Hong Kong people would converge on the city’s Victoria Park and its surrounding neighbourhood to commemorate the events of June 4, 1989 – taking part in candlelight vigils.
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