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Artist Sanmu Chan was stopped, questioned and taken away by police in Causeway Bay on Monday, the eve of the Tiananmen crackdown anniversary, as he sought to partake in some performance art.

A large police deployment had appeared near Victoria Park, a venue that once hosted mass remembrance vigils.

Dozens of uniform and plainclothes police officers were stationed across the shopping district, concentrated around East Point Road, Hennessy Road and Lockhart Road. An armoured police vehicle was briefly seen parked outside SOGO mall.

HKFP reporters witnessed Chan write the Chinese characters for “8964” with his finger in the air, referencing the date of the 1989 crackdown.

He also mimed pouring wine onto the ground to mourn the dead, per a Chinese tradition, before police moved in.

The Tiananmen crackdown occurred on June 4, 1989 ending months of student-led demonstrations in China. It is estimated that hundreds, perhaps thousands, died when the People’s Liberation Army cracked down on protesters in Beijing.

Over 30 police officers took Chan away for questioning and created a cordon to separate the artist from the media.

He was then taken away in a police vehicle a little before 9:30 pm, in a scene similar to his detention last June on the eve of the crackdown anniversary.

It is unclear if he was arrested. HKFP has reached out to the police for comment.

First anniversary since Article 23

Tuesday will mark the first Tiananmen crackdown anniversary since the city passed domestic security legislation, more commonly known as Article 23.

Police invoked the new law for the first time last week to arrest former Tiananmen vigil organiser Chow Hang-tung and six others over alleged sedition. They stand accused of using an “upcoming sensitive date” to incite hatred against the central and Hong Kong authorities through social media posts. Police made an eighth arrest in connection with the case on Monday. Hong Kong used to be one of the few places on Chinese soil where annual vigils were held to commemorate the people who died in the 1989 crackdown. But police banned the gathering at Victoria Park for the first time in 2020 citing Covid-19 restrictions, and imposed the same ban in the following year.

No official commemoration has been held since the vigil organiser, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, disbanded in September 2021. Currently occupying Victoria Park – historically the site of Hong Kong’s vigils – is a five-day patriotic carnival organised by 28 pro-Beijing groups.

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Human rights lawyer and China’s labour rights advocate Chow Hang-tung, currently imprisoned, was charged for “inciting subversion” under the new National Security Law on September, 9th 2021 and faces potential 10 years imprisonment. She, together with other core members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Alliance), was targeted simply for peacefully commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

CALL:

Drop all charges against and release Chow Hang-tung immediately, as she was charged solely for peacefully exercising her to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly;

End the practice of bringing ‘national security’ charges against those who have simply exercised their right to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly or other human rights.

Review and amend all laws and regulations, and end all related measures, that violate the exercise of human rights, in particular to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.

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“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -Dick The Butcher (William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2)

Three organizers of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigil, including a barrister, have been convicted under the National Security Law for failing to give police information on members of the group and other data.

The key issue is that the police issued the demand for data on the basis that the organizers were colluding with foreign forces (which is a specific crime). The police refused to disclose the evidence they had to consider the organizers a foreign agent. The judge agreed that it wasn’t necessary and that we could assume the police were acting in good faith.

Chow Hang-tung, who has been in custody since September 2021 awaiting trial on other national security issues, gave a brilliant statement:

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Since the #TiananmenCrackdown, those wishing to commemorate the date in mainland #China have been stopped, censored, silenced. 

After the imposition of the National Security Law or #NSL in 2020, this has become the reality in #HongKong as well. And yet, across the world, people still come together to remember the incident in their own ways.

Sign our petition to keep the fight alight, and stand with Hong Kong human rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung: [https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/remembering-tiananmen-square-defending-memory-amidst-repression/]

#WeRemember64 

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홍콩 경찰, 천안문 사태 추모글 관련 8명째 구속

(홍콩=데일리홍콩) 김한국 기자 = 홍콩 경찰이 천안문 사태 추모 관련글을 SNS에 게시한 혐의로 이미 수감중인 추행동(鄒幸彤, Tonyee Chow Hang-tung)씨의 삼촌인 62세 남성을 추가로 구속했다. 이로서 1989년 6월 4일 중화인민공화국 천안문 광장에서 발생했던 시위대 유혈 진압 사태 추모 관련글을 SNS에 게시한 혐의로 수감된 사람들의 홍콩인이 총 8명이 되었다. 당국은 이번 체포가 Facebook 내 추행동(鄒幸彤, Tonyee Chow Hang-tung) 클럽과 관련이 있었다면서 2020년 이래 금지된 천안문 사태 추모식을 회상하자는 글이 최근 공유되었다고 밝혔다. 정부 대변인은 게시글이 중앙당국, 홍콩 정부, 사법부에 대한 증오를 불러일으켰고 네티즌들이 차후에 관련 불법 활동을…

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Hong Kong arrests six for sedition under new law

Pro-democracy activist Chow Hang Tung was among those arrested over alleged social media posts. from BBC News https://ift.tt/1bF9uqH via IFTTT

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A Hong Kong court has jailed three former members of a group that organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China. Chow Hang-tung, 38, a prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and former vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, was among those convicted by a magistrate’s court. The two others were Tang…

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Hong Kong court jails three members of Tiananmen vigil group

Comment on this story Comment A court in Hong Kong jailed three activists from a now-disbanded group best known for organizing annual candlelight vigils to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Chow Hang Tung, Tang Ngok Kwan and Tsui Hon Kwong, who were members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, were sentenced to four-and-a-half months…

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Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests were jailed Saturday for four-and-a-half months for failing to provide authorities with information on the group in accordance with a national security law. Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were arrested in 2021 during a crackdown on the city’s…

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Prosecutors said Chow Hang-Tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were under foreign influence but refused to say who it wasA Hong Kong court has jailed three former members of a group that organised annual vigils to mark the 1989...

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Hong Kong activists behind Tiananmen vigil jailed for months

HONG KONG — Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests were jailed Saturday for four and a half months for failing to provide authorities with information on the group in accordance with a national security law. Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were arrested in 2021 during a crackdown on the…