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A protester holds a sign saying In Solidarity Against Repression during the demonstration in Parliament Square. The event commemorated the1989 student-led protests and the Chinese government's bloody crackdown on 4 June, as well as protest against China's current clampdown on freedom of speech - including its increasing repression of Tibetans and Uyghurs, its crushing of dissent in Hong Kong, and the intimidation of Chinese and Hong Kong students in the UK, Europe and North America. Thirty-five years on, the Chinese authorities still ban information related to the Tiananmen crackdown and ruthlessly crush any protests associated with it.. Up until 2020, Hong Kong was the only part of China where Tiananmen could be commemorated - however, under the territory's draconian national security laws it is now prohibited to publicly commemorate what happened in Tiananmen. . Some people have paid a heavy price for defying this ban, including Chow Hang-Tung, who in 2021 encouraged people on social media to light candles in memory of the 1989 killings and remains in prison. This week she was charged as part of an unprecedented series of mass arrests in the city and 4 June marks her 1000th day in prison.