Hong Kong artist who tried to mark Tiananmen massacre with red thread intercepted by police

Public acts to commemorate the 1989 killings have become increasingly sensitive in Hong Kong A performance artist in Hong Kong who tried on Wednesday to honour the victims of Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was quickly stopped by plainclothes police, the latest sign of the city’s shrinking freedom of expression. Sanmu Chen tried to tie a symbolic red thread to a street signpost in Causeway Bay, a shopping district close to a park that had for decades hosted an annual candlelight vigil on 4 June to commemorate those who died in the 1989 student-led protests. Continue reading...