As China tightens control over Hong Kong, activists defied a police ban to mark the 31st anniversary of the crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong's legislature passed a law making it a crime to disrespect China’s national anthem after a disrupted vote.
An activist comes to mourn those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Thursday, June 4, 2020. China is tightening controls over dissidents while pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and elsewhere try to mark the 31st anniversary of the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Hundreds and possibly thousands of people were killed when tanks and troops moved in on the night of June 3-4, 1989, to break up weeks of student-led protests that had spread to other cities and were seen as a threat to Communist Party rule. As has become customary, many dissidents were placed under house arrest and their communications with the outside world cut off, according to rights groups.A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson offered the government’s standard defense of the 1989 crackdown.
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic and Democratic Movements of China that organizes the annual vigil called on people to light candles at 8 p.m. and planned to livestream the commemorations on its website. The group later removed one of the barricades surrounding the park, and entered it to continue their procession.
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