Human rights group Amnesty International says people in Hong Kong must not be punished for peacefully paying their respects to those killed in the Tiananmen Square student-led protests on 4 June, 1989.
This day that year: Know the cruel history of China’s Tiananmen Square massacre - Artist Pak Sheung-Chuen has asked residents to write numbers 4 and 6 on light switches, to pay tribute to those who lost their lives.
Hong Kongers get creative as authorities ban Tiananmen vigil
published : 3 Jun 2021 at 09:45 Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong has collected hundreds of spent candle stubs from previous Tiananmen vigils and plans to give them to residents on the anniversary this year
HONG KONG - Hong Kongers are seeking innovative ways to commemorate the victims of China s deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown after authorities banned an annual vigil and vowed to stamp out any protests come Friday s anniversary.
Discussion of tanks and troops quelling peaceful democracy protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989 is all but forbidden in the mainland and there is heavy censorship of the images from the crackdown so well known in the rest of the world.
Hong Kongers are seeking innovative ways to commemorate the victims of China's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown after authorities banned an annual vigil and vowed to stamp out any protests come Friday's anniversary. - 'Refuse to forget' - But activists say authorities will struggle to eliminate all acts of commemoration in a city that still seethes with resentment towards Beijing after 2019's huge and often violent democracy protests were.
Human rights group Amnesty International says people in Hong Kong must not be punished for peacefully paying their respects to those killed in the Tiananmen Square student-led protests on 4 June, 1989.