Hong Kong  - About 600 people in Hong Kong marked China's 60th National Day by taking part in a march demanding more human rights and greater press freedom in the world's most populous nation.

Protestors waved banners and chanted slogans and also called on Beijing to vindicate the 1989 student pro-democracy movement that ended in the Tiananmen Square massacre.

The march was given added momentum by the detention and beating of three Hong Kong TV journalists covering ethnic unrest in September in the troubled far-western city of Urumqi.

More than 1,300 journalists joined in a signature campaign that culminated in newspaper advertisements Wednesday calling for greater press freedom in China.

Hong Kong, a former British colony, reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 under a "one country, two systems" arrangement, which guarantees its people freedom of speech denied to people in the rest of China. (dpa)