Thousands of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong gathered on Tuesday night to mark 30 years since China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong is the only region under Beijing's jurisdiction that holds significant public commemorations of the 1989 violence. Hong Kong has a degree of freedom not available on the mainland as a legacy of British rule that ended in 1997.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2019 19:30 UTC