Police in Hong Kong have banned a Tiananmen Square candlelight vigil for the second year, forcing people to consider alternative plans or risk being sent to jail
to commemorate those gunned down during China’s Tiananmen Square protests, one group of churches retreated to the safety of their parishes to hold socially-distanced commemorative masses.
Authorities have warned that anyone who gathers for unlawful assemblies, or encourages others to do so, faces arrest and up to five years in jail. Last June 4, Ms. He stayed on a university campus and lit candles with students next to a statue of the Goddess of Democracy, a Tiananmen-era icon. Doing the same this year could expose students to trouble at a time when student activism is under increased scrutiny, she said.
Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which had organized the Tiananmen vigil since 1990, said in an April interview that the event is significant because it symbolizes one of the biggest differences between Hong Kong and mainland China.
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