Two former organisers of Hong Kong‘s annual vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been found guilty of subverting the state.
Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, the former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, now face a maximum prison sentence of ten years.
The two were charged with inciting subversion under a controversial national security law – the same used to jail pro-democracy media boss Jimmy Lai. They both pleaded not guilty. The duo, alongside the alliance, was found guilty.
The China-imposed legislation was introduced in 2020, and has largely dismantled Hong
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