{
  "id": 2287441,
  "title": "Hong Kong Convicts Activists in National Security Trial",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/hong-kong-convicts-activists-in-national-security-trial-2287441",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-21T03:12:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tempo.co English",
    "slug": "tempo-co-english",
    "url": "https://en.tempo.co/read/2117992/hong-kong-convicts-activists-in-national-security-trial"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Two Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, have been convicted of inciting subversion under the city's national security law. They were found guilty of inciting others to subvert state power for organising candlelight vigils to mark Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The pair face a maximum prison term of 10 years and are expected to be sentenced at a later date.\n\nThe national security law, imposed on Hong Kong in 2020, has been widely criticized for deteriorating freedom of expression in the city. The law makes illegal a wider range of dissenting acts, and public commemoration of the Tiananmen crackdown has been effectively banned since its imposition. Lee and Chow were leaders of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance, which organised vigils in Victoria Park to commemorate the crackdown.\n\nProsecutors argued that the defendants endangered national security in the name of human rights. Chow, who represented herself, told the court that the law itself was on trial. A third defendant, 74-year-old former lawmaker Albert Ho, pleaded guilty in January, according to BBC World.",
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        "published": "2026-08-21T00:30:08.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "DW English (Top Stories)",
        "title": "Hong Kong convicts activists in national security trial",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/hong-kong-convicts-activists-in-national-security-trial",
        "published": "2026-08-21T02:39:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Hong Kong Tiananmen activists found guilty of national security charges",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/hong-kong-tiananmen-activists-found-guilty-of-national-security",
        "published": "2026-08-21T03:50:15.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}