2 organizers of Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigils convicted in national security case
- Two former organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen Square vigil were convicted under a national security law imposed by China that targets the city's pro-democracy movement.
- Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, were charged in 2021 with inciting subversion under this law.
- The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China was also found guilty in the national security case.
- Observers see the trial as a symbol of declining freedom of expression in Hong Kong since its return to Chinese rule in 1997.
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The case enshrines the end of a commemoration that for three decades symbolized the freedoms that differentiated Hong Kong from mainland China
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.
Hong Kong convicts Tiananmen vigil organisers in national security case
A Hong Kong court convicted two former organisers of the annual Tiananmen vigil and the alliance they led. The verdict deepens concerns over shrinking civil liberties under the national security law.
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2 organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigils convicted in national security case
Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted in a national security case.
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