Hong Kong police said on Sunday they had detained eight people near a park, four of them for "seditious intention and disorderly conduct," as authorities tightened security on the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Police patrol in the Causeway Bay shopping district of Hong Kong on June 4, 2023, close to the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of China's June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The authorities have banned and vowed to stamp out any protests. Peter Parks/ AFP
The police said the eight had been detained after "displaying protest items loaded with seditious wordings, chanting and committing unlawful acts." In Beijing, Tiananmen Square was thronged with tourists taking pictures under the watchful eyes of police and other personnel but with no obvious sign of stepped-up security."Though 34 years have passed, for us, family members of those killed, the pain of losing our loved ones in that one night has tormented us to this day," the group said in a statement released by the New York-based watchdog Human Rights in China.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, asked about the government's response to events around the world to mark the anniversary, told a regular briefing in Beijing on Friday that the government had already "come to a clear conclusion about the political turmoil in the late 1980s."
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