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View all search resultsHong Kong, China step up security on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary
Four people were arrested on Saturday for "seditious" acts and "disorderly conduct", and another four were detained on suspicion of breaching the peace.
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ong Kong boosted security around a park on Sunday where tens of thousands of people used to gather for an annual memorial of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, ensuring no protests on the event's 34th anniversary.
Hong Kongers would once converge on Victoria Park and its surrounding Causeway Bay neighborhood to commemorate the events of June 4, 1989, often taking part in candlelight vigils.
This weekend the park hosted a "hometown carnival fair" organized by pro-Beijing groups, while scores of police deployed in the adjacent Causeway Bay shopping district searched shoppers and quickly removed performance artists and activists
Four people were arrested on Saturday for "seditious" acts and "disorderly conduct", and another four were detained on suspicion of breaching the peace.
AFP saw artist Sanmu Chen chant "Don't forget June 4!" before he was bundled into a police bus.
Discussion of the Tiananmen crackdown is highly sensitive for China's communist leadership and commemoration is forbidden on the mainland.
The government sent troops and tanks to Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 to break up peaceful protests, brutally crushing a weeks-long wave of demonstrations calling for political change.
