Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist detained on Tiananmen 34th anniversary

In mainland China, authorities are prohibited from commemorating the events of June four, 1989

A organization of Chinese law enforcement officials defend the location around the Tiananmen massacre memorial web page. AFP

The Hong Kong Police have arrested this Sunday Alexandra Wong, a distinguished seasoned-democracy activist referred to as ‘Grandma Wong’, on the 34th anniversary of the massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, as showed by AFP journalists.

Wong became sporting some plant life and was in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay purchasing district whilst authorities took her away and positioned her in a van in conjunction with 5 different people, AFP journalists determined. On the eve, the Police already arrested numerous people inside the environment of Victoria Park, in the business district of Causeway Bay, wherein each year hundreds of human beings used to preserve a candlelight vigil for the victims of these occasions.

In mainland China, the government are prohibited from commemorating the occasions of June 4, 1989, when troops and tanks they overwhelmed the pro-democracy movement who had been demonstrating for weeks in that square in Beijing and killed extra than one thousand human beings.

Hong Kong, returned to Beijing by way of the United Kingdom in 1997, was for a time the most effective Chinese town to level in Victoria Park a candlelight vigil in reminiscence of these occasions. But, in 2020, a countrywide safety law imposed from Beijing at the city, the scene of large protests the yr before, put an give up to those commemorations.