HONG KONG: Hong Kong boosted security around a park on Sunday (Jun 4) where tens of thousands of people used to gather for an annual memorial of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, ensuring no protests on the event's 34th anniversary. In past years, Hong Kongers would converge on Victoria Park and its surround
HONG KONG: Hong Kong boosted security around a park on Sunday where tens of thousands of people used to gather for an annual memorial of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, ensuring no protests on the event's 34th anniversary.
Police searched shoppers in Causeway Bay on Saturday, and moved quickly to remove performance artists and activists.AFP saw artist Sanmu Chen chant"Don't forget June 4!" before he was bundled into a police bus. But the Victoria Park vigil has been banned since 2020, the year Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law to quell dissent after massive, and at times violent, pro-democracy protests.
Meanwhile, at Hong Kong's public broadcaster RTHK, a thank you letter dated Jun 6, 1989 - to the network's reporters who remained in Beijing to document the crackdown - appeared to have been removed from their office, said a staffer who requested anonymity."FACE THE CONSEQUENCES"Hong Kong's leader John Lee maintained that the public must act according to the law or"be ready to face the consequences".
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