{"id":1320,"date":"2021-09-27T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:40:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:40:46","slug":"hong-kong-tiananmen-massacre-vigil-group-disbands-following-pressure-from-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/hong-kong-tiananmen-massacre-vigil-group-disbands-following-pressure-from-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Tiananmen Massacre vigil group disbands following pressure from authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The group behind Hong Kong\u2019s annual Tiananmen Massacre vigil has decided to disband after 32 years following a vote at a special meeting on Saturday. It comes after months of pressure from the authorities and the arrest of the group\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

Founded in the year of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China fought for accountability from Beijing, advocated the democratization of China, and sought an end to one-party rule.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>During Saturday\u2019s vote, 41 members voted in favor of disbanding, whilst four voted against.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the press afterwards, Company Secretary of the Alliance Richard Tsoi said he was \u201csad\u201d about the disbandment: \u201cI do believe Hong Kong people, no matter in [an] individual capacity or other capacities, will continue commemorating June 4th as before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsoi added that he will visit the grave of Alliance founder Szeto Wah, as he believed that \u2013 were he still alive \u2013 Szeto would use all means to think how to preserve their energy and people\u2019s hope. \u201cI believe that [Szeto] was a principled person, and also someone who valued the group\u2019s safety and how to advance and retreat depending on the political environment,\u201d Tsoi said… read more ><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The group behind Hong Kong\u2019s annual Tiananmen Massacre vigil has decided to disband after 32 years following a vote at a special meeting on Saturday. It comes after months of pressure from the authorities and the arrest of the group\u2019s leadership. Founded in the year of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, the Hong Kong Alliance in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tiananmen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseallynpr.com\/qp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}