Hong Kong authorities on Saturday detained several people as they pounced on any attempt at public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, while around the world tributes were paid to the victims of the bloody event.
HONG KONG, China – As night fell, candles appeared in the windows of several foreign countries’ missions to Hong Kong — in defiance of a warning not to do so — and on various street corners around the city.
They also closed large parts of Victoria Park, once the site of packed annual candlelight vigils that were attended by tens of thousands on the anniversary. Activist Yu Wai-pan from the League of Social Democrats party was also briefly detained but later released without charge, according to his party.
A similar approach is now beginning to be applied to Hong Kong, as authorities remould the city in the mainland’s image.
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