HONG KONG: Police arrested four people in Hong Kong for 'seditious' acts and 'disorderly conduct' on Saturday (Jun 3), on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The bloody 1989 clampdown in Beijing is a highly sensitive topic for China's communist leadership, and commemoration o
HONG KONG: Police arrested four people in Hong Kong for"seditious" acts and"disorderly conduct" on Saturday , on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Late on Saturday evening, the police said that four people had been arrested"for disorderly conduct in a public place" and"doing acts with seditious intent". An officer shouted at him to"stop doing seditious acts" before authorities bundled him into a police bus. AFP reporters also witnessed police detaining a young couple dressed in white and holding white chrysanthemums - a flower and colour typically used to signify loss and mourning.
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