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Dozens detained in Hong Kong on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary

Police officers from Hong Kong's counterterrorism unit patrol near Victoria Park, the city's venue for the annual 1989 Tiananmen vigil, on the 34th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown [Louise Delmotte/ AP]

Police in Hong Kong have detained dozens of people on charges of “breaching public peace”, including a woman carrying a bouquet of flowers and a man who held a candle, during a crackdown on commemorations of the anniversary of the bloodshed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the largest vigils marking the anniversary of the bloody crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy demonstrators, leaving cities like Taipei, London, New York and Berlin to keep the memory of June 4, 1989, alive.

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