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Hong Kong police on Thursday raided a museum that houses exhibits commemorating Beijing's deadly crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989, a day after they arrested four members of the group that ran the venue.
Images of Hong Kong's now-shuttered Tiananmen Museum, showing what is left at the site after a police raid earlier this month. Hong Kong Police raided the museum commemorating Beijing's deadly crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989, a day after they arrested four members of the group that ran the venue.
Hong Kong, Sep 9 (EFE/EPA).- Police from the National Security Department of Hong Kong loaded pieces of evidence Thursday gathered at the closed June 4th Museum.The museum commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.Four members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the organisers of Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square candlelit vigil, were arrested on September 8, one day after officially refusing to cooperate with a national security investigation. (Camera: JEROME FAVRE)SHOT LIST: POLICE FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY DEPARTMENT LOAD PIECES OF EVIDENCE INTO A TRUCK IN HONG KONG, CHINA.
Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News says it will close after a police raid on its offices and arrests of seven current and former staff members, in the latest blow to the city's rapidly-shrinking press freedoms.
The arrests come as authorities crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.