Hong Kong’s Tiananmen museum shuts down amid investigation

Organisers of the June 4 Museum said it closed after authorities investigated whether it had licenses to conduct public exhibitions
Hong Kong’s Tiananmen museum shuts down amid investigation

Officers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department ask questions to a staff, left, at the June 4 Memorial Museum in Hong Kong. Picture: Vincent Yu/AP

A Hong Kong museum commemorating China’s deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests has closed just three days after opening.

Hong Kong was the last place on Chinese soil where the party’s attack on protests centred on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square was commemorated with candlelight vigils and other events.

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