Despite a government ban on the annual event to commemorate the lives lost in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square Massacre, hundreds of people in Hong Kong still gathered to pay their respects.
Last year, Hong Kong authorities banned the yearly vigil held at Victoria Park for the first time. As The New York Times reported at the time, “The order cited the need to enforce social-distancing rules to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as the justification for the ban.” The move came last summer as the Chinese Communist government took action to impose new security laws on Hong Kong that critics decried at the time as “the end of Hong Kong.”
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