Lee Cheuk-yan poses at the June 4 Museum his pro-democracy group operates in Hong Kong on May 28, 2014. Chinese character projected on him reads “Rehabilitate the June 4th Movement”. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
Chow Hang Tung, then Vice Chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Patriotic Movements of China poses after an interview in Hong Kong on Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
Albert Ho, then Democratic Party Chairman center, poses with his banner for the upcoming Hong Kong chief executive election near the Registration and Electoral Office in Hong Kong Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
HONG KONG (AP) — Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho are three prominent Hong Kong activists who led the group behind the city’s massive annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
The three former leaders of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China were sentenced on Friday. They were convicted of inciting subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Lee and Chow pleaded not guilty, while Ho, who entered a guilty plea, received a shorter sentence.
