(Central News Agency Hong Kong comprehensive foreign report on the 4th) Hong Kong police today arrested more than 20 people, including important pro-democracy figures who tried to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre, on the grounds that they were suspected of disrupting social peace.
The Hong Kong police pointed out this evening that they arrested 23 people aged between 20 and 74 who were suspected of “disrupting the peace of society”.
In addition, a 53-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of obstructing police officers in performing their duties.
An Agence France-Presse reporter witnessed Chen Baoying, chairman of the important opposition party “Social Democratic Link”, and others being taken into a police car.
Today, Chen Baoying went to Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, which has been the June 4th commemoration site for many years, holding a small LED candle lamp and two flowers, and was immediately taken into a police car by the police.
A man sat on a bench holding an unlit candle as he was surrounded by police in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park. As the man was about to be led into a police car, he said: “I was taken away just because I was sitting there.”
Citizen groups such as the Association of Chinese Democratic Colleges held a mourning event at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei today. The group bluntly stated that “June 4th is also a matter for Taiwanese people”; at 8:09 p.m., there was a 64-second silence to express the meaning of “never Don’t forget June 4th” .
After the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, Hong Kong Victoria Park candlelight vigils can no longer be held, and Taiwan has become the only Chinese place in the three places on both sides of the strait that can publicly commemorate the June 4 incident. (Translator: Chen Yanjun) 1120605
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