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Tsui Hon-Kwong, veteran member of disbanded #HongKongAlliance - the group who hosted candlelight vigil for #June4 for three decades in HK, was taken away by police. He kept upholding his candle for #TiananmenMothers until police shut the door.
A man whose phone torch was on was taken away by police after a search. An officer snatched his phone as a group of officers escorted him into the search zone.
At a point people were lined up to wait for police search.
#BREAKING League of Social Democrats leader #ChanPoying was taken away minutes after she showed up with a small candle for #TiananmenMothers and two yellow flowers. She resisted and tried to uphold what she had in hands.
Heard LSD’s Chan Po-Ying said “why must police station? I don’t mind here.” before police bundled her into a police car.
Truck driver turned activist To Chi-kuen was taken away by police. He apparently carried nothing with him except wearing a tee that says “I don’t want to remember but I dare not to forget”.
Today, I’m thinking of Zhang Xianling, who lost her only son, Wang Nan, 30 years ago. Wang, 19, told his mother that he wanted to “record history.” Before he left for Tiananmen Square on June 3, 1989, he asked her: “Do you think the troops would open fire?” She said she did not.
Three hours later, he was shot dead by soldiers. That was how Ms. Zhang became central to the #tiananmenmothers, always calling on the government to account for its role in the massacre. I tried to visit her 5 years ago in April, together with @maximduncan.
We were stopped by 8 police and security officers, who had put her on 24-hour surveillance. Usually if this happens in China, interviewees plead with you not to contact them again or apologize for the general inconvenience. Not Ms. Zhang ...
