Hong Kong performance artists detained on Tiananmen anniversary eve

Hong Kong (AFP) June 3, 2023

Police detained at least two performance artists in Hong Kong, according to AFP reporters on Saturday, the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing. Discussion of the June 4, 1989 crackdown is highly sensitive to China's communist leadership, and commemoration of the hundreds killed - by some estimates, more than 1,000 - has long been forbidden in the mainla