HK, China step up security on Tiananmen anniversary FMTNews FMTWorld
HONG KONG: Hong Kong boosted security around a park today where tens of thousands of people used to gather for an annual memorial of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, ensuring no protests on the event’s 34th anniversary.
Police searched shoppers in Causeway Bay yesterday, 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.
Since the passage of the security law in 2020, Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy activists have either fled abroad or been rounded up.Police seized a commemorative “Pillar of Shame” statue for a security trial; a private screening of a documentary unrelated to the Tiananmen crackdown was cancelled; and books related to the crackdown were removed from the city’s public libraries.
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