BEIJING: China's state censors on Thursday scrubbed the Internet of references to commemorations of the Tiananmen crackdown including a huge vigil in Hong Kong, extending a campaign of repression that has seen dozens of critics detained.
Organisers said a record 180,000 people filled Hong Kong's Victoria Park for Wednesday night's gathering, the only major commemoration on Chinese territory of the 25th anniversary of the events of June 4, 1989.
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