Hong Kong's Efforts to Erase Tiananmen Square Memories
Hong Kong's government has been increasingly controlling remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre, with officials insisting that the freedoms of expression and assembly remain unmolested, but the national-security law renders such statements close to meaningless. The legislation is so vague that no one knows where its lines are drawn. The government has hauled down statues commemorating Tiananmen, closed a museum dedicated to the massacre, and oversaw the removal from public libraries of books that mention the massacre. Bookshops, too, have been purging their shelves of literature that might upset the authorities.