Near Victoria Park, the previous site of yearly vigils, hundreds of police conducted stop and search operations, and deployed armoured vehicles and police vans. theSun thesundaily HongKong TiananmenSquare prodemocracy demonstrators
People hold candles and torches at a vigil marking the 34th anniversary of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protestors around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and in solidarity with blank paper protestors, outside the Chinese Embassy in London, Britain, June 4, 2023/REUTERSPix: Hong Kong police said they detained 23 people on Sunday for “breaching public peace”, including a 53-year-old woman for “obstructing police officers” as authorities ramped up security for the 34th anniversary of the...
Reuters witnesses saw more than a dozen people taken away, including activist Alexandra Wong, 67, who carried a bouquet of flowers, a man who held a copy of “35th of May”, a play on the Tiananmen crackdown, and an elderly man standing alone on a street corner with a candle. Security is significantly tighter across Hong Kong this year, with up to 6,000 police deployed, including riot and anti-terrorism officers, according to local media.
In Beijing, Tiananmen Square was thronged with tourists taking pictures under the watchful eyes of police and other personnel but with no obvious sign of stepped-up security.“Though 34 years have passed, for us, family members of those killed, the pain of losing our loved ones in that one night has tormented us to this day,“ the group said in a statement released by the New York-based watchdog Human Rights in China.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, when asked about the government’s response to events around the world to mark the anniversary, said in Beijing on Friday that the government had already come to a “clear conclusion about the political turmoil in the late 1980s”.
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