The eighth person arrested is a 62-year-old man.
HONG KONG - Hong Kong police arrested an eighth person over social media posts about commemorating Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on June 3, the eve of the bloody incident’s 35th anniversary.
Jailed since 2021, Chow is already serving a more than 30-month jail sentence over other charges, including “unauthorised assembly” for her attempt to publicly commemorate the June 4 anniversary. Hong Kong used to be the only place under China’s rule where public commemoration of Beijing’s deadly clampdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, was allowed.Beijing imposed the first national security law
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