Hundreds of people gathered in Taipei to commemorate the Chinese crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square 33 years ago.
The Guardian reports it.
A strong security presence in Hong Kong prevented any demonstrations in the territory.
China, which never provided a full death toll from the June 4, 1989 massacre, bans any public commemoration of the event on the mainland, making Taiwan the only part of the Chinese-speaking world where it can be openly remembered.
"It's a symbol of how precious and fragile democracy is at the same time and how people who care about democracy must defend it, otherwise authoritarians around the world will think people don't care," said the organizer of the event. event, Jeremy Chiang, 27 years old.
Activists in Taipei also erected a new version of the 'Pillar of Shame', a statue commemorating Tiananmen protesters that a major Hong Kong university removed from its campus, where it had remained for more than two decades, in December. .
After the statue was erected, shouts rang out in support of Hong Kong's independence.