Police patrol Hong Kong park after ban on Tiananmen Square commemoration

Police officers stand guard at the Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Kin Cheung/AP)

Dozens of police officers patrolled Hong Kong’s Victoria Park after authorities for a third consecutive year banned public commemoration of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

For decades, an annual candlelight vigil was held in the park to remember China’s deadly crackdown on protesters demanding greater democracy in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989.