HONG KONG—Hong Kong activist Chow Hang Tung was released on bail on Saturday, June 5, a day after she was detained on suspicion of promoting an unauthorized assembly to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre on pro-democracy activists in Beijing. Police arrested Chow, vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, alleging she promoted an unauthorized assembly early on Friday morning. “There’s no logic in that. It’s a completely absurd charge, [a] complete abuse of power. I reject all the allegation,” she told reporters outside the police station. The ban on the vigil and at least six arrests came amid growing concern in the pro-democracy movement and internationally about the suppression of the semi-autonomous city’s traditional freedoms, notably a national security law imposed by Beijing last year. “I want to tell all who participated in this suppression of the Tiananmen remembrance event this year…don’t …
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