4 June 2023 – The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation launched a video to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
In 2019, hundreds of thousands of people participated in a Tiananmen Square massacre vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong. However, Hong Kong banned the same vigils in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and these vigils remain outlawed under the National Security Law today. Multiple individuals including British citizen Jimmy Lai have been issued jail sentences for partaking in Tiananmen Square massacre vigils. Mirroring the Chinese mainland, the Hong Kong authorities also removed references to the Tiananmen Square massacre from the libraries in Hong Kong this year.
Freedom in Hong Kong is fading. Yet, the Chinese Communist Party cannot erase history nor deny individuals from exercising their rights to speech, assembly and expression under international law.
