(4 Jun 2023)
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RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hong Kong - 4 June 2023
1. Wide of Chan Po-ying (lady in black dress and black face mask), leader of the League of Social Democrats taken away by police
2. Police gathered
3. Wide of police taking one person to be searched
ANNOTATION: In the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations of the 1989 pro-democracy protest, eight people were detained on Saturday.
4. Various of woman surrounded by police
5. Woman being led by police to van
ANNOTATION: Police on late Sunday said they arrested a woman for allegedly obstructing police officers in performing their duties and took 23 others away on suspicion of breaching public peace for further investigation.
6. Man being led by police to checkpoint area, and having possessions searched
7. Various of police officers and police vehicles maintaining a highly visible presence in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay
ANNOTATION: Many of them were detained by officers around Victoria Park which used to be the scene of an annual candlelight gathering.
8. Activist Alexandra Wong, commonly known as Grandma Wong being led away by police
ANNOTATION: Discussion of such events became increasingly off-limits in Hong Kong since a sweeping national security law was imposed in June 2020.
STORYLINE:
In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations for the 1989 pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square, eight people, including activists and artists, were detained on the eve of the anniversary of the crackdown.
Police on late Sunday said they arrested a woman for allegedly obstructing police officers in performing their duties and took 23 others away on suspicion of breaching public peace for further investigation. Many of them were detained by officers around Victoria Park.
The large public space with its lawns and sports grounds used to be the scene of an annual candlelight gathering to remember the hundreds or thousands killed when army tanks and infantry descended on central Beijing on the night of June 3 and into the morning of June 4, 1989.
Discussion of the seven weeks of student-led protests that attracted workers and artists and their violent resolution has long been suppressed in China.
It also became increasingly off-limits in Hong Kong since a sweeping national security law was imposed in June 2020, effectively barring anyone from holding memorial events.
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