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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kanis Leung

Former Hong Kong vigil organizer strives to mark Tiananmen crackdown despite convictions

Hong Kong Tiananmen Trial Activist Account - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Tang Ngok-kwan still occasionally visits the places where Hong Kong once publicly remembered Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Though Tang's fellow activists were locked up in prison, accused of inciting subversion, and an annual candlelight vigil they previously organized to mourn the crackdown's victims vanished, the 58-year-old continues to personally and discreetly remember the event, which is a political taboo on mainland China.

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