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The annual Tiananmen Square massacre vigil in Hong Kong was banned for the first time since 1990 citing health concerns due to COVID-19. Lee Cheuk Yan , the chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China , which organized the vigil in the past years, said that the ban signaled the end of Hong Kong's ...
Many citizens on Russell Street in Causeway Bay held high the Five Demands gesture sign and displayed the flag of Liberate Hong Kong, which was alleged to have the meaning of Hong Kong independence. Despite police ban, tens of thousands of protesters showed up, alongside heavy police presence, to Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, Tin Hau and lingered in ...
Few protests took place in June 2021 and there were no large-scale demonstrations in threat of the national security law.The anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre on 4 June saw only small crowds or single individuals engaging in vigils in the vicinity of Victoria Park – the venue of large vigils on the same occasion in past years – before police dispersed them.
Commemorators played and sang the protest anthem "Glory to Hong Kong", a song that is now banned in Hong Kong and formed a human chain. [112] Kaohsiung saw about 150 attendees who wore black outfit and yellow helmets. They waved numerous "Stand With Hong Kong" flags. The gathering in Taichung attracted about 70 people. [113]
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.
Reports suggested it could have been the largest ever, [23] and certainly the largest protest Hong Kong has seen since the 1997 handover, surpassing the turnout seen at mass rallies in support of the Tiananmen protests of 1989 and 1 July demonstration of 2003. [24]
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 ...
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 ...