Pro-democracy activists including from left Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung shout slogans during a gathering to mourn those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong on June 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil for victims of the Chinese government’s brutal military crackdown three decades ago on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Police officers deploy outside the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts in Hong Kong on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, ahead of sentencing for former Tiananmen vigil organizers. (AP Photo/Kanis Leung)
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown to prison for terms ranging from 5 to over 7 years in prison on Friday in a case that is widely seen as a barometer of the city’s freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.
Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho were convicted of inciting subversion earlier this year under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
