HONG KONG—Crowds congregated across Hong Kong to gentle candles and bear in mind victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, defying a police ban to net hours after the metropolis’s legislature passed a regulation making disrespect of China’s nationwide anthem a criminal offense.
Thousands flooded into Victoria Park, the usual venue for the annual vigil, which this year used to be forbidden for the well-known time by police, who cited public-smartly being concerns on account of the coronavirus. The crowd roared make stronger on Thursday evening as speakers on microphones criticized…
