Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people, including four arrested for ‘seditious’ intent, as authorities tightened security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown
HONG KONG/TAIPEI, June 4 - Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on Sunday, including four arrested for "seditious" intent, as authorities tightened security for the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Near Victoria Park, the previous site of yearly vigils, hundreds of police conducted stop and search operations, and deployed armoured vehicles and police vans. "The regime wants you to forget, but you can't forget... It wants to whitewash all history," said Chris To, 51, who visited the park in a black t-shirt and was searched by police.Hong Kong activists say such police action is part of a broader campaign by China to crush dissent in the city that was promised continued freedoms for 50 years under a "one country, two systems" model when Britain handed it back in 1997.
Senior officials have warned people to abide by the law, but have refused to clarify if such commemoration activities are illegal under a national security law China imposed on Hong Kong in 2020 after sometimes violent mass pro-democracy protests.
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