Hong Kong police did not authorize the holding of the traditional June vigil in memory of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, organizers announced Thursday..

The Hong Kong Alliance, which has organized this annual commemoration for three decades, sent a message to journalists to say that they had not received permission to meet in the city center this year, as was the case in 2020..

For decades, the former British colony held a vigil to remember the bloody intervention of the Chinese army against the 1989 social and student movement in Beijing..

For the first time in 30 years, the June 4 vigil was not authorized in 2020 by the authorities, who claimed the fight against the pandemic, in a context of the takeover of the city by the Chinese central power. However, tens of thousands of people defied the ban to peacefully commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown in Victoria Park.. Subsequently, legal proceedings were initiated against 24 prominent members of the pro-democracy movement.. Several, including Joshua Wong, were sentenced this month to prison terms for participating in the 2020 vigil.