People holding candles as they gather in Mong Kok district to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, (June 4). After months of quiet in Hong Kong amid the virus outbreak, clashes between protesters and police resumed in the city’s streets last month following China’s decision to impose national security legislation that could curb freedoms. - Bloomberg
HONG KONG: At the height of last year’s protests in Hong Kong, Daniel Wong Kwok-tung regularly received late-night requests from a mysterious group known as Spark Alliance to provide legal assistance to demonstrators rounded up in street battles with police.
The 70-year-old lawyer was among several that Spark Alliance would tap to organise a defence, essentially a back-room operation that kept the demonstrations going for months despite thousands of arrests of young people -- many of whom couldn’t afford to make bail.
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