2023-06-04 15:05:59
[Now News Channel]On the 34th anniversary of the June 4 incident, the police stepped up defenses around Victoria Park, and many people were intercepted and taken away. Tang Jiahua, a member of the Executive Council, pointed out that he respects the citizens’ mourning of June 4th in their own way, but it is not recommended for citizens to gather.
In the Victoria Park area, a large number of police officers patrolled and stood guard all day long. A man with an electronic candle in his backpack was taken into a police car.
An exchange student from a Chinese university in Poland was regarding to light a candle, but was stopped by the police and released following a search.
Philip: “I believe sensitive people will remember that I received a warning from the police and I understood it.”
He said the police only asked him not to do it once more.
Part of the football field in Victoria Park is holding the “Hometown Market” of fellow associations, while the rest of the No. 1 and No. 2 soccer fields are surrounded by water horses and iron horses, and citizens are not allowed to enter.
The police set up a blockade outside Sogo Department Store, appealing to citizens not to stay, and set up tents to stop many citizens and check their ID cards and bags. Some of them wore black clothes.
Citizens with flashlights were stopped and checked before being released.
Mr. Huang: “I like to play with flashlights. I have a lot of flashlights on me, so there is nothing special and meaningless. Maybe they are too sensitive.”
Xu Hanguang, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Branch Federation, and several social activists were taken away by the police.
The “Sabertooth Tiger” armored vehicle was parked outside Sogo Department Store, and social activists were also stopped and checked in Langham Place, Mong Kok.
Tang Jiahua, a member of the Executive Council, pointed out on a radio program that he respects the public’s own way of mourning June 4th, but it is not recommended for citizens to gather.
Tang Jiahua, member of the Executive Council: “It is not a problem to commemorate June 4th, but it has always been closely related to some slogans of the Stake Association in the past. It makes people think that mourning June 4th is to end the one-party dictatorship. I think we should have The heart of vigilance is that we must live in the present, and we cannot live forever in the past.”
Tang Jiahua also pointed out that foreign countries are constantly smearing and slandering China, calling on the Chinese to unite.
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