Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents have braved thunder and torrential rain to attend a candlelight vigil marking the 24th anniversary of China's bloody Tiananmen crackdown.
A crowd packed the former British colony's Victoria Park in an annual act of remembrance for the people killed in the June 3-4 onslaught in Beijing in 1989.
In the Chinese capital, police blocked the gate of a cemetery housing victims of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators as part of a sweeping annual attempt to bar commemorations.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
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