Authorities warned the public that 'participating in an unauthorised assembly' risked a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment. TiananmenSquare HongKong
Police officers detain a protester near Victoria Park, the traditional venue of the Tiananmen candlelight vigil, on 4 June, 2022 in Hong Kong, China.Hong Kong authorities on Saturday detained several people as they pounced on any attempt at public commemorations of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, while around the world tributes were paid to the victims of the bloody event.
Authorities had warned the public that "participating in an unauthorised assembly" on Saturday risked a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment.They also closed large parts of Victoria Park, once the site of packed annual candlelight vigils that were attended by tens of thousands on the anniversary.
Three of them were detained for obstructing officers in the execution of their duties, one for inciting others to join an unauthorised assembly, and the remaining person was apprehended for possession of offensive weapons, according to the police. China has gone to exhaustive lengths to erase the crackdown from collective memory, omitting it from history textbooks and scrubbing references to it from the Chinese internet and social media platforms.
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