Hong Kong Activists Convicted for Inciting Subversion Over Tiananmen Vigil
Several Hong Kong activists, including organizers of the annual Tiananmen Square vigil, have been convicted of inciting subversion under the national security law. They face potential prison sentences for their roles in commemorating the 1989 crackdown.
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Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists guilty in national security trial
Three activists were accused of inciting others to subvert state power under the China-introduced law.
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A Hong Kong court convicted two former organizers of the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigils of inciting subversion, in a closely watched test of the national security law imposed by Beijing.
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Read full article →Tiananmen Square vigil organisers found guilty in Hong Kong of ‘inciting subversion’
Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung - leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance – were tried under under a 2020 national security law Two Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils marking China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 were found guilty of “incitement to subversion”, in a case widely criticised as exemplifying the erosion of freedom of expression in the Chinese city. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41 “incited other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in acts by unl...
By Guardian staff and agencies
Read full article →Tiananmen Square vigil organizers convicted of 'inciting subversion' in Hong Kong
Two former organizers of Hong Kong's decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted Friday in a national security case brought under a China-imposed law that has effectively crushed the city's previously thriving pro-democracy movement.
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The two pro-democracy Tiananmen activists were found guilty of inciting subversion. The high profile case has been widely criticized for highlighting the deterioration of freedom of expression.
Read full article →Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil organiser, former leaders guilty of inciting subversion
A now-disbanded alliance behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil, along with two of its former leaders, have been found guilty of inciting subversion under the national security law for advocating an end to “one-party dictatorship” in mainland China. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, its former chairman Lee Cheuk-yan and former vice-chairwoman Chow Hang-tung were convicted at West Kowloon Court on Friday over one of the group’s operational...
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Read full article →BREAKING: Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists convicted under nat. security law, face up to 10 years in prison
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have been convicted of incitement to subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law. At the West Kowloon Law Courts Building, three national security judges on Friday handed down the guilty verdict in the trial of Chow and Lee Cheuk-yan, both former leaders of the now-defunct […]
By Hong Kong Free Press
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