Hong Kong police on Sunday (June 4) detained more than 20 people, including key pro-democracy figures trying to commemorate the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown.
For years, tens of thousands of Hong Kongers would converge on the city's Victoria Park and its surrounding neighbourhood to commemorate the events of June 4, 1989 – taking part in candlelight vigils.
More than 700 kilometres away on the self-ruled island of Taiwan, hundreds gathered at Taipei's Liberty Square to chant"fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong" as night fell. The veteran activist, who was released hours later, held a small LED candle and two flowers before she was seized by police. The office of UN human rights chief Mr Volker Turk said in a tweet late Sunday it was"alarmed by reports of detentions" in Hong Kong and called for the"release of anyone detained for exercising freedom of expression & peaceful assembly."Discussion of the Tiananmen crackdown is highly sensitive for China's communist leadership and commemoration is forbidden on the mainland.
Hong Kong authorities were vigilant in the weeks before June 4, with police seizing a commemorative"Pillar of Shame" statue for a security trial and removing books on the Tiananmen crackdown from public libraries. Vigils planned around the world, from Japan to Australia, saw people standing with candles next to images of the brutal crackdown.
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