At least 20 people detained including activist Alexandra Wong and leader of opposition party
First published on Sun 4 Jun 2023 12.51 BST
Chan Po-ying, a veteran activist and head of the League of Social Democrats, was held briefly in a busy Hong Kong shopping district – an area that for years was the site of commemorations of the bloody 4 June 1989 crackdown inHolding a small LED candle – a common sight during the annual vigil – and two flowers, Chan was seized by police and put into a van. According to her party, she was released about two hours later.
A reporter with a Hong Kong news outlet was heard saying “I didn’t do anything” as officers detained her. Since 1990, an annual vigil had been held in the city’s Victoria Park, drawing tens of thousands to the candlelight memorial. But in 2020, a national security law was imposed on the city by Beijing to quell dissent, after huge and at times violent pro-democracy demonstrations rocked the finance hub. Since then, the vigil has been banned and its organisers arrested and charged under the security law.
The government sent troops and tanks to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 to break up peaceful protests, brutally crushing a weeks-long wave of demonstrations calling for political change. Hundreds – by some estimates, more than 1,000 – were killed.
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