Hong Kong has commemorated 1989 crackdown for decades, but national security law imposed in 2020 has put a stop to annual vigils
Hong Kong police have warned that people risk breaking the law if they gather on Saturday to commemorate China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown – particularly in the city’s Victoria Park, the site of a once-annual candlelit vigil.
Discussion of the 1989 clampdown, when the government set troops and tanks on peaceful protesters, is all but forbidden in mainland China.
