Hong Kong police confiscate Tiananmen statue
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Hong Kong police on Saturday confiscated a statue mourning victims of China's 1989 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square and arrested 13 activists, a participant said, in what critics called an escalation in political censorship in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
China's military suppression of pro-democracy student protesters in Beijing, which killed at least hundreds, is still a taboo topic on the mainland. But in Hong Kong, a former British colony that enjoys some Western-style civil liberties, the incident is openly mourned, with tens of thousands usually attending an annual candlelight vigil on the evening of June 4, the anniversary of the crackdown. (AP)
