China is preventing the commemoration of the bloody suppression of the student movement in Beijing 34 years ago. In Hong Kong, several well-known activists were taken away.
For years, Hong Kong was the only city where the events in Tiananmen Square were still commemorated in large public vigils. Beijing enacted the so-called Security Law for the Special Administrative Region in 2020. It provides the authorities with draconian means of suppressing protests and has resulted in a ban on annual vigils and the arrest of organizers.