Hong Kong Police Increase Presence on Tiananmen Anniversary
Hong Kong police significantly increased patrols and made arrests around the former site of the Tiananmen vigil on the anniversary of the 1989 crackdown. Foreign missions in Hong Kong also marked the anniversary with tributes.
The Story
Analyzing sources…
Source Diversity
Source Diversity
Moderate (42/100)Sources
7 taken away as police ramp up patrols around former site of Tiananmen vigil
Hong Kong police took away seven people who appeared in Causeway Bay on Thursday evening carrying flowers and dressed in black to mark the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. They included Chan Po-ying, former chairwoman of the now-defunct League of Social Democrats opposition group, and activist Virginia Fung King-man. Police said they stopped and searched five men and two women, aged between 17 and 79, for allegedly disrupting order in the area around Great George Street and...
By Natalie Wong,Theodora Yu
Read full article →In Pictures: Foreign missions in Hong Kong mark Tiananmen crackdown with candles, social media tributes
The US consulate in Hong Kong displayed commemorative candles in its windows on the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown on Thursday, while other diplomatic missions paid tribute with social media posts. The annual move is often blasted by local and Chinese authorities, and has been cited by Beijing as “evidence” of foreign interference in a 6,300-word “fact […]
By Tom Grundy
Read full article →
