Cases: Tiananmen vigil activists in Hong Kong found guilty
For a long time, people in Hong Kong remembered the bloody suppression of protests in Beijing in 1989. Two former organisers have now been sentenced. They face long prison sentences.
A Hong Kong court has found two pro-democracy activists, Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, guilty of inciting subversion between July 2020 and September 2021. The pair, former co-organizers of an annual vigil for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, had pleaded not guilty. A third defendant, Albert Ho, had pleaded guilty. The court ruled that they had called for an end to one-party rule, challenging the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China's governance.
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