Police in Hong Kong detained a number of pro-democracy activists on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Sq. bloodbath.
The chief of one in every of Hong Kong’s most important opposition events was amongst these arrested, with authorities having banned public commemoration of the 1989 incident.
Additionally detained was 67-year-old Alexandra Wong, a outstanding campaigner nicknamed “Grandma Wong”.
She was arrested whereas carrying flowers close to Victoria Park, the place vigils had been held for a few years.
Occasions to mark the 1989 bloodbath, which noticed the federal government violently suppress peaceable protests in Beijing with tanks and troops, are additionally banned in mainland China.