Hong Kong Tiananmen Trial

Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted in a national security case. It was brought under a China-imposed law that has effectively crushed the city’s previously thriving pro-democracy movement. Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung were charged in 2021 with inciting subversion. They are former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. The judges have ruled that they intentionally encouraged supporters of the alliance to wait for the right time to carry out the goal to “end one-party dictatorship” by unlawful means. Lee and Chow will be sentenced at a later date. They face a maximum prison term of 10 years.