Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s massive vigils to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown will hear their verdict on Friday, in a national security trial under a Beijing-imposed law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent.

Two activists who organized Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen Square vigil are likely to hear a verdict in their case brought under a China-imposed national security law

As Hong Kong court rules on Tiananmen vigil organizers, observers say the national security case could redefine the city’s pro-democracy movement and rights.