Hong Kong police pepper spray protesters defying ban to mark Tiananmen
Thousand join rally banned by police over coronavirus crisis
04 June 2020 - 18:37
Hong Kong — Police pepper-sprayed Hong Kong protesters on Thursday who defied a ban to stage candlelight rallies in memory of China's bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy crackdown, accusing Beijing of stifling their freedoms too.
Scuffles broke out briefly in the working-class Mong Kok area where hundreds had gathered and some demonstrators tried to set up roadblocks with metal barriers, prompting officers to use spray to disperse them, according to witnesses...
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