Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil organisers convicted
The former organisers of Hong Kong's vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted in a case brought under a China-imposed national security law.
Former organisers of Hong Kong's annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, have been convicted of inciting subversion under a China-imposed national security law. The verdict was handed down on Friday, signalling a severe crackdown on the city's pro-democracy movement. The alliance, which organised the vigil for three decades, was also found guilty.
The vigil, a symbol of opposition to China's one-party rule, was banned in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and was replaced by pro-Beijing gatherings. The trial of the former vigil leaders and the alliance has raised concerns about the erosion of freedom of expression in Hong Kong, where the British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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