Update | Victoria Park lit up at June 4 vigil as 'localist' groups stage alternative rallies
Organisers of Tiananmen vigil claim 135,000 people turned out for the event but police placed attendance numbers at just 46,600 at its peak
Watch: Hong Kong student groups split over future of Tiananmen Square crackdown legacy
A sea of candles lit up Victoria Park last night as mourners remembered victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Alternative rallies were held at other venues by groups claiming Hongkongers had no responsibility to help build a democratic China, a traditional slogan of the main annual vigil.
Alliance chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan said: "It is quite a significant figure. It shows Hongkongers still insist on [Beijing] vindicating [victims of] June 4."
Beijinger William Gao, who was taking part for the first time, said: "It's a shame I need to fly more than 1,000 kilometres to commemorate a bloody tragedy in my hometown. My wish is that one day the vigil can take place everywhere in China."
"The commemoration of June 4 … has been a lesson of politics and democracy for many young people," she said from Los Angeles. "I believe that is why they stood up so courageously in the 'umbrella movement' to fight for universal suffrage."
Representatives of four university student unions burned a copy of the Basic Law. They said they wanted to amend Article 45, which states chief executive candidates will be named by a nominating committee when universal suffrage is introduced.