About 100 mourners crowded the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront yesterday to remember students killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre almost 10 years ago.
The square outside the clock tower was transformed into a makeshift tomb, carpeted by yellow chrysanthemums.
The event organiser, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China, admitted people's enthusiasm had died down but pledged to preserve the ceremony.
Alliance chairman and Democrat Szeto Wah said: 'It is understandable people's feeling is not so strong now.
'It is already 10 years past, but the brutal killings left a deep scar on people's hearts and people will never forget what happened on June 4, 1989.' The alliance, branded subversive by Beijing, is expected to hold a seminar today on human rights on the mainland. Mr Szeto said the denial of entry and seizure of the travel permit of alliance core member Lai Lai-har demonstrated China's bad human rights record.
He said he would raise the issue when he attended a United Nations human rights hearing in Geneva later this month. 'It is against human rights to ban a citizen from returning to his own country,' said Mr Szeto.
