HONG KONG - A Hong Kong court on Friday convicted two organizers of annual vigils for those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown of inciting subversion under a Beijing-decreed national security law introduced in 2020 to quash the pro-democracy movement in the former British colony.
The former leaders of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, had pleaded not guilty to the charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
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