About 150,000 people gathered in Hong Kong yesterday to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, but Beijing was locked down as police and security agents swarmed through the streets.
The annual candelit vigil in Hong Kong, a Chinese territory, was one of the biggest seen, offering the chance for some mainland Chinese groups to mark the occasion.
All public discussion of the 1989 incident is banned in mainland China, but Hong Kong operates under a far less repressive political system where free speech is protected by the territory's mini-constitution.
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