In full: Tiananmen vigil activist Chow Hang-tung’s mitigation after guilty verdict in national security trial
Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho, and the now-defunct pro-democracy group they led, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, returned to court on Friday for mitigation proceedings. Chow, Lee and the group were found guilty last Friday of inciting subversion, an offence under the national […]
Chow Hang-tung, one of the Tiananmen vigil activists, faced the court for mitigation proceedings after being found guilty of inciting subversion under the national security law. The 206-page judgment stated that pursuing democracy is a crime, and Chow believed that anyone who believes in ending one-party dictatorship has nowhere left to stand because the law considers such thoughts unlawful.
Chow emphasized that belief is something that cannot be calculated or traded, and pleading or apologizing for one's beliefs is hypocritical and insulting to those who share those beliefs.
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