Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday that the Department of Leisure and Culture (LCSD) suspended all reservations at Victoria Park until June 4, effectively closing the popular clock for the third consecutive year after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In 2022, it will be 33 years since communists massacred opposition students.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that LCSD and Hong Kong police officials reported that football fields in Victoria Park were closed for maintenance and no one had applied for public events in the park. Authorities have confirmed that all reservations have been made for June 4, the traditional day of remembrance of the victims of Tiananmen.
Hong Kong candlelight wakefulnessLargest Tiananmen Square celebration in any communist-controlled part of China It is cancelled for the first time in its history in June 2020. The Beijing-controlled Hong Kong government said surveillance would pose a “serious threat to public health” during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
Thousands of Hong Kongers still take to the streets with ‘illegal’ accusations commemorations 4 June 2020 Despite the official cancellation, the crowd gathered for the candle holder in Victoria Park.
The public displayed the popular protest slogan “Five demands, no less” at a strike in Victoria Park, Hong Kong on June 4, 2020, after the annual commemoration ceremony traditionally held in the park to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. (YANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)
Amnesty International (AI) described the arrest of 12 people who participated in a peaceful but “unpopular” protest in 2020 as a sign of “an accelerating human rights violation in Hong Kong.”
“Despite the relentless efforts of Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to erase history by detaining people who peacefully light candles in memory of the victims of the persecution in Tiananmen Square, the movement continues to support June 4 in Hong Kong and around the world. “This atrocity will never happen, it will never be forgotten,” he said.
Police patrol as participants in a press release in Victoria Park after the closure of Tiananmen Square, a traditional annual gathering of Hong Kongers to mourn the victims of the persecution in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong on June 4, 2021. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
watch It is cancelled Again and again in 2021 many Hong Kongers objected to the ban. small group of women He said the children were killed by the Chinese communist government in 1989. A group of communist agents followed the women to the local cemetery.
Pro-democracy activists attend a march in Hong Kong on May 26, 2019, to commemorate the repression in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (PHILIP FONG/AFP/Getty Images)
Hong Kong officials referred to a harsh “national security law” imposed by Beijing to suppress the annual picket group in Tiananmen Square, the Hong Kong Alliance for China’s Patriotic Democratic Movements. Alliance removed After being accused of “acting as an agent of a foreign power” in September 2021.
The persecution of the Hong Kong Alliance continued this month. clumsy fraudulent attempt Against its five leaders, prosecutors were given full authority to call them “foreign agents” without the slightest need for evidence or even to name the foreign power they were allegedly working with.
Groups that want to picket in Tiananmen Square this year, including the aforementioned Tiananmen Mothers’ Party and the pro-democracy Union of Social Democrats, told RFA they suspect all permits for mass rallies will be denied again to suppress the Chinese Communist Party vigil. . basically.
“The government, of course, continues to hope that people will forget about June 4, but I don’t think that will happen,” said Avery Ng, former chairman of the League of Social Democrats.
“The candle will not go out; “It will only be enlightened by honest people in the world,” said Yu Weijie, a spokesperson for the Tiananmen Mothers.
in Taiwan New Democracy School He announced that he would hold a strike in Taiwan to commemorate the event that was banned in Victoria Park. A copy will be shown at the event in Taiwan column of shameThe legendary 26-metre statue of the dead, on display at Victoria Park in Tiananmen Square and later at the University of Hong Kong, until it was brutally destroyed by the Chinese Communist Party in December 2021.
President Zeng Jian-yuan told RFA he was “jealous of the freedoms and rule of law in Hong Kong,” as evidenced by the massive demonstration in Tiananmen Square, which grew during Taiwan’s rule.
“Taiwan’s path to democracy has been promoted and supported by Hong Kong, and I think we Taiwanese have an obligation to speak on behalf of Hong Kongers and all Chinese, because the event will no longer be held there on June 4th.” said Tseng.
On Wednesday, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong canceled a memorial service in Tiananmen Square for the first time. to be arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen.
“According to Catholic belief, we can commemorate the dead in different ways, ritual is one of the ways, of course, but it will also be important to pray alone or in small groups for the dead alone.” Said. .
Church insiders said so. (SCMP) Cardinal Zen’s arrest caused a “shock wave” in the Catholic community in Hong Kong. Diocesan leaders said they were concerned that holding a worship service in Tiananmen Square “could violate existing national security law”.
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