04/06/2026
✍️ 香港監察主席羅傑斯在《UCA News》撰評──六四37週年 自由世界要傳承記憶 應追究中共在香港等地暴行
✍️ Op-ed from Hong Kong Watch Chair Benedict Rogers in UCA News – Tiananmen’s shadow still falls on China
//The second reminder is from Hong Kong.
For three decades after June 4, 1989, there was only one part of China where it was legal to commemorate the Tiananmen massacre — and that was Hong Kong.
Every year, in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, a candlelit vigil was held on June 4, attended by thousands. When I lived in Hong Kong during the first five years after the handover, from 1997-2002, I attended this vigil each year. Catholic churches across the city also held special vigil Masses.
Until 2020 — when a draconian National Security Law was imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong that silenced dissent. The Victoria Park vigils were deemed illegal that year, and two years later, the Catholic Church ceased even holding commemorative Masses. The People’s Republic of Amnesia had arrived in Hong Kong to erase the memory of 1989.
And yet many brave Hong Kongers persisted — and have ended up in jail for doing so.
Among them are pro-democracy entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, a devout 78-year-old Catholic who is now serving a 20-year sentence but has already served time in jail for the crime of lighting a candle to commemorate Tiananmen.
We must also remember the courageous Hong Kong barrister Chow Hang-tung, who has spent the past five years in jail and is currently on trial for commemorating the Tiananmen massacre, along with the remarkable trade unionist Lee Cheuk-yan. Today, even lighting a candle in Hong Kong on June 4 is unlawful.//
//And when you take the evidence of the China Tribunal, together with the subsequent Uyghur Tribunal, as well as numerous reports on the human rights crisis in Tibet, the persecution of Christians, the repression of dissidents over the past three decades or more, and the dismantling of Hong Kong’s promised freedoms, you find a CCP state that lives up to the values it exhibited in Tiananmen Square in June 4, 1989: barbarity, inhumanity, criminality, murder, torture, and — in some specific instances — crimes against humanity and genocide. That criminal regime is still in power in Beijing today. And it should be held to account.//
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