2023-06-03 13:36:24
Hong Kong police arrest artists
At least four people were arrested on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tian’anmen movement.
Police search and arrest two people carrying white flowers in Causeway Bay near Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 3, 2023, a day before the anniversary of the 1989 Tian’anmen Square crackdown.
Yan ZHAO/AFP
Another performance artist, Chan Mei-Tung, was also taken away.
New law since 2020
For more than 30 years, tens of thousands of people have gathered each year in Victoria Park for a candlelight vigil in memory of the more than 1,000 peaceful demonstrators who fell under the bullets of repression on June 4, 1989 in the square. Tian’anmen in Beijing.
But since Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong in 2020, the authorities have put an end to these gatherings and pushed the artists involved in these commemorations to produce their shows outside the Chinese metropolis.
As this year’s anniversary approached, authorities repeatedly refused to confirm whether public commemoration of the event was illegal, saying only that “everyone should act within the law”.
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