A ban on public gatherings triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic is set to interrupt a decades-old Hong Kong tradition that has turned Victoria Park into a sea of lit candles every June 4, a commemoration of the bloody 1989 crackdown on the student-led protest movement in Beijing.But the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which organises the annual candlelight vigil, has vowed to head to the park nonetheless, at the risk of police intervention.Others have…
from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3087431/banned-first-time-30-years-heres-what-you-need-know-about
Thursday, June 4, 2020
What you need to know about Hong Kong’s annual June 4 Tiananmen Square vigil, banned for the first time in 30 years
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