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.

Restrictions in Hong Kong have stifled what were once the largest vigils marking the anniversary of the bloody crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy demonstrators.

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

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.