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Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kongers living overseas are helping to keep the flame of remembrance alive for the victims of China’s Tiananmen massacre as authorities in a city that
Chinese authorities in Hong Kong replaced the protests in Victoria Park with a pro-Beijing fair. (Photo : HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) Chinese authorities in Hong Kong replaced the protests in Victoria Park with a pro-Beijing fair.
Tiananmen Square: Epicentre of Communist Killings Tiananmen Square is the world's largest urban space, measuring 400,000 square meters in the area,
Overseas Hong Kongers carry Tiananmen’s torch as vigils to remember massacre victims are snuffed out back home
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.