ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Activists arrested as Hong Kong police locks down Tiananmen vigil park | The World” – below is their description.
Police in Hong Kong have arrested two people linked to organising vigils to mark China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. It’s the second year in a row that authorities have banned the anniversary after the controversial national security laws were enforced. As Andrea Nierhoff reports, activists say it’s another step closer to bringing the city in line with Beijing’s strict controls and shutting down dissent.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.