A Hong Kong court on Monday (November 3, 2025) rejected a former Tiananmen vigil organiser’s attempt to quash her indictment, pressing ahead with a landmark case widely seen as part of a years-long crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement.
Top Hong Kong court overturns convictions of three former organizers of Tiananmen vigils
Chow Hang-tung, a former leader of the group that organised a decades-old vigil to remember China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, was charged in 2021 with inciting subversion, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. She was charged together with two of the group’s other former leaders, Albert Ho and Lee Cheuk-yan.
Their case was brought under a national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020 to quell massive anti-government protests in 2019. The trio were accused of inciting others to challenge the leadership of the Communist Party by unlawful means.
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