Organizer of Tiananmen anniversary rally penetrated by security cops

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Organizer of Tiananmen anniversary rally probed by security police

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Hundreds of countless individuals participated in the yearly candlelight vigil service in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on June 4, 2018 to pay regard those who lost their lives throughout the 1989 Tiananmen square massacre.

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The pro-democracy group that arranges Hong Kong’s yearly June 4 rally to honor those who passed away in the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 is being examined by nationwide security cops on suspicion of collusion with foreign forces.

Police sent out a letter to the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China inquiring about its subscription, financial resources and activities bySept 7, according to a copy the group sent out to press reporters.

Similar letters were sent out to a number of people and associations that are members of the alliance, the group stated.

Police did not instantly react to an ask for remark.

The letters implicated the alliance of being “an agent of foreign forces.” Failure to supply the details by the due date might lead to a HK$100,000 fine and 6 months in prison, the letter stated.

The group stated in July that it had actually laid off employee to guarantee their security which half of its committee members had actually resigned.

“It’s ridiculous that the police accused the alliance of being an agent of foreign forces,” alliance vice-chairwoman Chow Hang Tung informedReuters “It has nothing to do with any foreign agents nor has it received any instructions from foreign countries.”

Alliance leaders Albert Ho and Lee Cheuk- yan are currently in prison over their functions in anti-government demonstrations that roiled the city in 2019.

The examination comes days after Civil Human rights Front (CHRF), the group that arranges Hong Kong’s yearly July 1 rally and galvanized millions to participate in street demonstrations in 2019, dissolved after it was examined by cops.

It likewise marks the current blow to the opposition motion, which has actually come under tremendous pressure because Beijing enforced a nationwide security law in 2015 that penalizes broadly specified criminal activities such as collusion with approximately life in jail.

Since then, ratings of opposition political leaders and activists have actually been apprehended, imprisoned or left into exile. Civil society groups have actually likewise dissolved, consisting of the Professional Teachers’ Union, after it was slammed by Chinese state media.

Critics of the law state it is being utilized to squash dissent, an assertion authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong turn down.

News of the cops questions casts a shadow over the future of the June 4 rally in Hong Kong, where countless individuals collect to light candle lights for the pro-democracy demonstrators eliminated by Chinese soldiers in Beijing.

Authorities prohibited it this year, mentioning coronavirus limitations, and released countless cops throughout the city to avoid individuals collecting.