politics
Tiananmen Square vigil organisers found guilty in Hong Kong of ‘inciting subversion’
Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung - leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance – were tried under under a 2020 national security law
TL;DR
- Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance, were found guilty of inciting subversion.
- The charges relate to their organization of annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
- The convictions are under Hong Kong's 2020 national security law.
- The defendants face a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail, with sentencing to be determined later.
- The Hong Kong Alliance is a now-disbanded group that organized vigils mourning those killed in the 1989 crackdown.
- The case centered on the Alliance's slogan demanding an 'end to one-party rule,' which the court found intended to cause hostility and division.
- The defense argued the Alliance was exercising freedom of speech.