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Hongkongers on Wednesday marked the second anniversary of a million-strong march that launched a mass protest movement in 2019 that started with widespread opposition to plans to allow extradition to mainland China, and broadened into calls for full democracy and official accountability.
More than a million people marched from Victoria Park to government headquarters in Admiralty that day, in a bid to put an end to a legal amendment that would have allowed the rendition of alleged criminal suspects to mainland China.
A Hong Kong resident who gave only a surname, Ho, told RFA that it has been saddening to watch the events of the past two years.
People hold up their phones with the light on in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong after police closed the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of China s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 which the authorities have banned and vowed to stamp out any protests on the anniversary, June 4, 2021,. AFP
Police in Hong Kong on Friday arrested the head of a rights group that organized candlelight vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre for three decades, for publicizing the now-banned event.
Chow Hang-tung, who heads the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, was one of two people arrested for calling on others to join a banned vigil for the victims of the 1989 crackdown, when People s Liberation Army (PLA) troops mowed down mostly unarmed civilians with machine guns and tanks, ending weeks of peaceful protest on Tiananmen Square.
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Barrister Chow Hang-tung was thrust into the limelight at the head of the the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China after several of its veteran leaders were jailed for taking part in the 2019 protest movement.
Controversial because it emphasizes building a democratic movement in mainland China rather than on preserving Hong Kong s promised freedoms, the Alliance is best-known for running the annual candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the victims of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen massacre.
That event that has now been banned by the authorities for two years running, with officials citing restrictions on public gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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An investigative journalist arrested and tried after she made a documentary exposing the Hong Kong police force s handling of the July 21, 2019 mob attacks on train passengers in Yuen Long was found guilty of improper searches of an online car license database on Thursday.
Journalist Bao Choy, whose documentary 7/21: Who Owns The Truth? tracked the movements of suspected attackers on the night of the attacks, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of knowingly making a false statement to access number plate ownership records.
Choy, 37, was fined H.K.$6,000 by the judge at West Kowloon Magistrates Court, who said the public interest aspect of her work on the film had been taken into account. The charges carry a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment.