Two former Hong Kong vigil organizers, Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, were convicted in Hong Kong on Friday for inciting others to overthrow China’s communist leadership. The government-approved judges found the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China guilty as well, and the defendants face up to 10 years in prison. The case is one of the latest against Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement under the China-imposed national security law.
Elizabeth Tang Yin-ngor, center, wife of former union leader Lee Cheuk-yan, leaves the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts after the verdict in the national security trial of two pro-democracy Tiananmen activists, in Hong Kong, Aug. 21. AFP-Yonhap
HONG KONG — Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted by government-approved judges Friday for inciting others to overthrow China's communist leadership.
Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, were charged with inciting subversion in 2021 under a China-imposed national security law that has effectively crushed the city’s previously thriving pro-democracy movement. They face a maximum prison term of 10 years. The alliance was also found guilty.
