Hong Kong vigil organizer arrested on Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong is sentenced to more jail time for participating in a commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
“For HKU students, in cleaning the Pillar of Shame, we shall learn how our predecessors defended the freedom of expression before, and we shall not easily give up,” Kwok said. Tiananmen Mothers said 62 of its members have died since the group, which represents victims’ relatives, was founded in the late 1990s. It said that many young Chinese have “grown up in a false sense of ... enforced glorification of the government [and[ have no idea of or refuse to believe what happened on June 4, 1989, in the nation’s capital.”
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