Scores detained in HK on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary FMTNews FMTWorld
Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on the Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary today.
This year, authorities gave permission for pro-Beijing groups to hold a food carnival in part of the park, while sealing off other areas with barricades. Security is significantly tighter across Hong Kong this year, with up to 6,000 police deployed, including riot and anti-terrorism officers, according to local media.
Jailed Hong Kong activist Chow Hang-tung, one of the leaders of a group called The Alliance, which used to organise Hong Kong’s annual June 4 vigils before it was disbanded in 2021, said on Facebook she would hold a 34-hour hunger strike. In democratically governed Taiwan, the only part of the Chinese-speaking world when the anniversary can be marked freely and openly, activists prepared a memorial at Taipei’s Liberty Square with flowers of mourning and a “Pillar of Shame” statue.
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