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In Hong Kong, a performance artist’s attempt to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was swiftly halted by plainclothes police, underscoring the city’s dwindling freedom of expression. Sanmu Chen endeavored to affix a red thread symbolically on a street signpost in Causeway Bay, near a park that traditionally hosted an annual June 4 candlelight vigil to honor those who perished in the protests. This vigil was a unique remembrance as Hong Kong used to be the sole place in China where such a large-scale commemoration occurred. The annual vigils were proscribed in 2020 due to the pandemic, and activities related…
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