The police have transferred the case involving two women – both widely known to be the daughters of a local lawmaker – for their alleged participation in an illegal June 4 gathering to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) in line with the assembly and demonstration law.
June 4 exhibition
Police officers patrol the city’s main square, Largo do Senado, Thursday night to ensure that this year’s ban on the annual June 4 vigil in the area will be obeyed.
Activists are planning to hold their annual June 4 vigil at a private venue after Macao’s top court upheld a police ban on holding the event in a public place.
Macao’s Court of Final Appeal has upheld a decision by the local authorities to disallow this year’s June 4 vigil due to the government’s ongoing COVID-19 prevention measures.
Macau’s Public Security Police (PSP) have rejected activists’ request to hold a June 4 vigil due to “the current circumstances,” the Portuguese-language radio channel of public broadcaster TDM reported today.
The Municipal Affairs Bureau’s (IAM) recent decision to disallow a roving exhibition by the non-establishment Union for Democratic Development (UDD) about the June 4 incident was “not political” but for public health reasons, Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon told reporters on Tuesday.