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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. ....
AFP Hong Kong protesters who fled to Canada to escape an ever-widening crackdown on public dissent and political opposition in the city have set up a lifeboat group to support people thinking of leaving the city, RFA has learned. The Soteria Institute was recently founded to support Hongkongers seeking political asylum in Canada, and to lobby for them once they arrive, a co-founder who gave only the name Alison told RFA. This all began with the [attempt to] bring in legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law in 2003, she said. Since then, if you watch what the CCP has been doing, it has never stopped trying [control ideology and activism using national security legislation and patriotic education]. ....