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Hong Kong activists claim censorship is at the center of authorities' decision to ban a vigil commemorating China's June 4th, 1989, deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square ...
Many Hong Kong celebrities sang songs and expressed their support for the students in Beijing. [134] [135] The following day, a procession of 1.5 million people, one fourth of Hong Kong's population, led by Martin Lee, Szeto Wah, and other organisation leaders, paraded through Hong Kong Island. [136]
Hong Kong’s top court on Thursday restored a prominent detained activist’s conviction over a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, marking the ...
As Beijing tightens its grip on Hong Kong, it has also restricted efforts to mark the anniversary of its military crackdown on June 4, 1989 — just as it has long done on the mainland.
Police cordon outside Victoria Park, Hong Kong. For the past 30 years, 4 June has been a grand occasion in Hong Kong as one of very few places on Chinese soil permitting memorials for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests; vigils were typically attended by tens of thousands of Hongkongers.
Since the rise of localism in Hong Kong and the 2014 Umbrella Movement in particular, turnout for Tiananmen vigils in Hong Kong has been steadily declining. Some student groups explicitly boycotting them, asserting that the Hong Kong Autonomy Movement and the Chinese democracy movement are, or should be, separate concerns. [21]
HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Hong Kong police detained several people and Chinese authorities restricted access to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday on the 35th anniversary of the crackdown on ...
The candlelight vigil held in the Victoria Garden, Hong Kong, 4 June 2009. The 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre (20周年六四遊行) was a series of rallies that took place in late May to early June 2009 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, during which the Chinese government sent troops to suppress the pro ...