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Hongkongers on Wednesday marked the second anniversary of a million-strong march that launched a mass protest movement in 2019 that started with widespread opposition to plans to allow extradition to mainland China, and broadened into calls for full democracy and official accountability.
More than a million people marched from Victoria Park to government headquarters in Admiralty that day, in a bid to put an end to a legal amendment that would have allowed the rendition of alleged criminal suspects to mainland China.
A Hong Kong resident who gave only a surname, Ho, told RFA that it has been saddening to watch the events of the past two years.
People hold up their phones with the light on in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong after police closed the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gather annually to mourn the victims of China s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 which the authorities have banned and vowed to stamp out any protests on the anniversary, June 4, 2021,. AFP
Police in Hong Kong on Friday arrested the head of a rights group that organized candlelight vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen massacre for three decades, for publicizing the now-banned event.
Chow Hang-tung, who heads the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, was one of two people arrested for calling on others to join a banned vigil for the victims of the 1989 crackdown, when People s Liberation Army (PLA) troops mowed down mostly unarmed civilians with machine guns and tanks, ending weeks of peaceful protest on Tiananmen Square.
HK s top envoy vows to counter external meddling By Gang Wen in Hong Kong | HK EDITION | Updated: 2021-06-03 11:57 Liu Guangyuan, newly appointed commissioner of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, meets the press in Hong Kong, June 2, 2021. [Photo/WWW.FMCOPRC.GOV.HK]
The Foreign Ministry s new commissioner in Hong Kong pledged on Wednesday his office will take a firm stance against hostile external interference in the special administrative region.
Meeting the press in his first public appearance since assuming his post as the commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Liu Guangyuan said the fight against forces trying to seize power and seek subversion and infiltration is at the core of the Hong Kong issue.