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Hong Kong, organizers of the vigil for Tiananmen arrested

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HONG KONG – Hong Kong police arrested four leaders of the group that organizes the annual vigil to remember the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989 this morning, accused of refusing to deliver documents requested by the authorities in the name of the new security law imposed by Beijing 14 months ago at the former British colony.

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This was announced by the Hong Kong Alliance, the association to which the 4 arrested belong, created in support of China’s patriotic democratic movements. The Alliance had openly challenged the application of the security law, claiming that the police arbitrarily labeled pro-democracy organizations as foreign agents.

Those arrested are the vice president of the association, Chow Hang-tung, stopped together with three members of the standing committee, Leung Kam-wai, Tang Ngok-kwan e Chan Dor Wai, according to reports from the newspaper South China Morning Post.

The arrests began a few hours after the deadline set for yesterday by the authorities for the delivery of a series of information relating to the group’s finances, after the accusation of “connivance with foreign powers” against the organization. Deadline to which the Association responded with a sharp no, sending a letter in which it defined the police action as illegal and arbitrary, and remarking that no evidence of wrongdoing had been presented. The accusation of “foreign agent” was also rejected, claiming the role of a group that campaigns for the inhabitants of Hong Kong.

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The police have targeted the personal details of all members of the pro-democracy group since its foundation in 1989, all meeting minutes, financial records and any exchanges with other NGOs that defend democracy and human rights in China.

The group, whose full name is Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, is one of the symbols of the city’s pro-democracy movement. Every June 4, the day of the bloody repression of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the group organized large candlelit vigils in Victoria Park, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people.

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The last two vigils were officially banned due to the pandemic, and a museum run by the group was closed this year. Chinese and Hong Kong authorities have also repeatedly made clear that any future vigils could violate the new security law.

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