Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square Activists Found Guilty in National Security Trial
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Hong Kong used to be one of the only places in Chinese territory where people could gather to mark the deadly 1989 crackdown against pro-democracy protesters.
Authorities banned these gatherings in 2020, citing Covid-19 policies, but they have never resumed. This was also the year the national security law, which makes illegal a wider range of dissenting acts, officially came into force.*
Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, face a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail after being convicted under the city’s controversial national security law. A third defendant, 74-year-old former lawmaker Albert Ho, pleaded guilty in January.
Prosecutors argued the defendants "endanger(ed) national security in the name of human rights". Chow, who represented herself, told the court in May that the law itself was on trial.
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