The protest along the border with China on August 23 to call for freedom is a homage to actions across the Baltic states in 1989.

Hong Kong activists are forming human chains on the 30th anniversary of anti-Soviet protests in the Baltic states.

Thirty years ago, 2 million people in the Baltic states made a human chain to demand independence from the Soviet Union. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians remembered the chain Friday.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The three Baltic countries on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the 1989 “Baltic Way,” a historic anti-Soviet protest that involved nearly 2 million people ...

They said the “Hong Kong Way” was inspired by the “Baltic Way,” when people in the Baltic states joined hands 30 years ago in a protest against Soviet control. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the “Baltic Way” in which almost a quarter of the combined populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania formed an unbroken human chain of linked arms almost ...

Pro-democracy activists formed a human chain across Hong Kong, recreating a historic anti-Soviet demonstration known as the Baltic Way to denounce China’s infringement on the semi-autonomous city.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The three Baltic countries on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the 1989 "Baltic Way," a historic anti-Soviet protest that involved nearly 2 million people forming ...

Thirty years ago, 2 million people in the Baltic states made a human chain to demand independence from the Soviet Union. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians remembered the chain Friday.