Hong Kong national security police investigate Tiananmen Square vigil organizers

Published:Dec 7, 202309:44
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The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China should submit private particulars of all its administrators and members, together with their names, dates of beginning, addresses, contact data and roles, the police letter stated. It additionally demanded the group -- shaped greater than three many years in the past to assist these protesting for democracy in Beijing -- present all assembly data with political teams in Hong Kong, Taiwan and abroad, in addition to its supply of revenue.

The police letter stated the request was made as a result of it was "reasonable to believe" it will assist investigate attainable crimes towards national security. The alliance should present the knowledge inside 14 days, or they could possibly be prosecuted, it added.

Hong Kong police confirmed to CNN in a press release that they'd requested "certain persons" present data that's "related to the maintenance of national security," however declined to supply extra particulars.

The letter got here after public broadcaster RTHK reported this week that the alliance has thought of disbanding following Beijing's promulgation final 12 months of a sweeping national security legislation that criminalizes secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with overseas forces.

In the wake of the laws, town's political and social panorama has been reworked. Under the security legislation, protesters, journalists and pro-democracy figures have been arrested; newsrooms have been raided and compelled to close down; textbooks, movies and web sites face new censorship; and civic organizations together with labor unions have folded after stress from authorities.

The Hong Kong Alliance has held the annual candlelight vigil on the anniversary of the crackdown since 1990.

The occasions of Tiananmen Square started with protesters in Beijing, largely school college students, gathering within the coronary heart of the Chinese capital to mourn the dying of an ousted former chief -- then, to push for governmental reform and higher democracy. In the early hours of June 4, the Chinese army entered the sq., with orders to place down the protests.

No official dying toll has ever been launched, however rights teams estimate a whole bunch, if not hundreds had been killed. The protests and crackdown have been wiped from the historical past books in China, censored and managed. The annual candlelight vigil in Hong Kong has been, for many years, the one mass memorial held on Chinese soil.

But the vigil's days seem like numbered. This 12 months's occasion was banned by authorities, citing coronavirus restrictions. Hong Kong's Security Bureau additionally warned that attending or selling any June 4 rally might violate the national security legislation and end in imprisonment.

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