Diaspora community holds Tiananmen commemorations despite crackdowns in Hong Kong, China
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Police keep watch on a street in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on June 4, 2024. FILE - In this June 4, 2020, file photo, from left, pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang Tung, and Cheung Man-kwong attend a gathering to mourn for those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown at Victoria Park, in Hong Kong. FILE - A dissident Chinese student speaks to soldiers as crowds gather in central Beijing on June 3, 1989. Performance artist Sanmu Chen gestures to trace the Chinese characters of 8964 referring to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, along the Causeway Bay in Hong Kong on June 3, 2024 on the eve of the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Authorities in China and Hong Kong are tightening control over civil society as people in more than a dozen cities around the world commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre on Tuesday.
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