Thousands of police to enforce Hong Kong ban on Tiananmen massacre gatherings


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Open this photo in gallery: Police question a local journalist at Victoria Park in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on June 2, 2023, the venue where Hong Kong people traditionally gathered annually to mourn the victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images Police in Hong Kong have threatened to arrest anyone gathering in public around Sunday’s anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Hundreds of people were killed when the Chinese military cracked down on pro-democracy protests in early June 1989, ending whatever lingering hopes there were for political liberalization in China. For decades after, Hong...