Hong Kong police have arrested or detained more than a dozen protesters at the park that once hosted annual memorial ceremonies for the Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary.

STORY: A pro-democracy activist was arrested by Hong Kong police along with at least four others as authorities tightened security on the 34th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square.

China has tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on the anniversary of 1989 pro-democracy protests

Police in Hong Kong have arrested pro-democracy activists on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Authorities have banned public commemoration of the 1989 incident, which saw China crush peaceful protests in Beijing with tanks and troops.

Pro-Beijing groups in Hong Kong opened a food “carnival” in a public park that used to hold an annual candlelight vigil for the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown

Police in Hong Kong arrested four people and detained another four pending an investigation on the eve of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in Beijing. Police said in a release that four people were arrested for alleged “disorder in public spaces” or for acting “with seditious intention.

With candlelight vigils to the victims of the 1989 crushed student uprising in Beijing now only a memory, the anniversary is also a reminder of the freedoms Hong Kong has lost.