HONG KONG — Macau has banned a vigil marking China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown for the second year in a row, with authorities this time saying the event would “incite subversion”, in the latest sign of withering political freedoms there.
Like neighboring Hong Kong, Macau is a former colony and a semi-autonomous Chinese city granted certain freedoms unseen on the authoritarian mainland.
Chinese authorities have long maintained a more robust grip on Macau which has witnessed none of the widespread democracy protests that have engulfed Hong Kong over the years.
But the annual June 4 Tiananmen vigil was a rare exception, marked for more than three decades with a pho…
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