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Hong Kong, Jun 4 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Jerome Favre) .- The Tiananmen massacre celebrated its 32nd anniversary on Friday with the usual silence in Beijing, while in Hong Kong the local police banned the annual vigil in memory of victims and detained an activist for promoting her on social media.FOOTAGE FROM THE VIGIL IN HONG KONG IN HONOR OF THE VICTIMS OF THE TIANANMEN MASSACRE.
People gather outside Chinese Consulate General in Sydney, holding candles and placards to commemorate anniversary of Beijing's deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. IMAGES
This year marks the 26th anniversary of the June 4 protests in China, where an unknown number of student protesters were killed in a government-ordered crackdown in and around Tiananmen Square.
Turkish police have sealed off Istanbul's central Taksim Square to prevent any May Day protests, with scuffles breaking out in the nearby Besiktas district after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned unions to stay away from any provocative steps. The stepped-up security measures come a day after Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said authorities had designated 40 areas for May Day celebrations with the exception of the emblematic Taksim Square. IMAGES
On the last day of Russia's presidential elections, set to cement Vladimir Putin's grip on power, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny widow, Yulia Navalnaya, tells the press after voting at the Russian embassy in Berlin that Putin is "a killer" and a "gangster. Crowds had earlier chanted: "Yulia, Yulia, we're with you," as she entered to cast her ballot. Alexei Navalny was Putin's most prominent rival, and died in an Arctic prison last month in mysterious circumstances. SOUNDBITE
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