Hong Kong detains artist on eve of the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown

Police in the Chinese territory took away Sanmu Chen on a street close to a park that for decades hosted an annual vigil to mourn the victims of the 1989 crackdown.

Hong Kong police briefly detained a performance artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, underlining the Chinese territory’s shrinking freedom of expression.

Police on Monday took away Sanmu Chen on a street in Causeway Bay, a busy Hong Kong shopping district, close to a park that for decades hosted an annual vigil to mourn the victims of the 1989 crackdown. Before officers approached Chen, he mimed the action of drinking in front of a police van. He also appeared to be drawing or writing something in the air.

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nogooduser, 28 days ago

This is the second article calling it a crackdown. What’s that all about? I was the subject of a crackdown when I was a naughty kid at school.

It was a massacre.

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