Hong Kong Tiananmen Trial

Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted in a national security case. It was brought under a China-imposed law that has effectively crushed the city’s previously thriving pro-democracy movement. Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, were charged in 2021 with inciting subversion. The judges did not immediately reveal the reasons for the convictions Friday. Lee and Chow will be sentenced at a later date. They face a maximum prison term of 10 years.