What to know about the Tiananmen vigil organizers convicted of inciting subversion in Hong Kong

Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s massive vigils to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted under a Beijing-imposed national security law

Two activists were found guilty of inciting subversion and face up to a decade in prison

Activist group says the 'twisted' Hong Kong judicial system had long ago decided that the pair were guilty.

The former organisers of Hong Kong's vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted in a case brought under a China-imposed national security law.

Two former organizers of Hong Kong's decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted Friday in a national security case brought under a China-imposed law that has effectively crushed the city's previously thriving pro-democracy movement.

Court convicts 2 organizers of Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigils in national security case  AP News

Three activists were accused of inciting others to subvert state power under the China-introduced law.

Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung - leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance – were tried under under a 2020 national security law Two Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils marking China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 were found guilty of “incitement to subversion”, in a case widely criticised as exemplifying t

Hong Kong Court Convicts Activists Who Organized Tiananmen Vigils  WSJ

Hong Kong security lawDefendants face up to 10 years in jail in case seen as symbol of squeeze on freedomsPeople hold up lights during the last vigil for Tiananmen victims in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on June 4, 2020. (Photo by Kenji Kawase)KENJI KAWASE and ANNE CHANAugust 21, 2026 11:23 JSTTOKYO/HONG KONG -- A Hong Ko

A now-disbanded alliance behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil, along with two of its former leaders, have been found guilty of inciting subversion under the national security law for advocating an end to “one-party dictatorship” in mainland China. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Mo

A Hong Kong court convicted two former organizers of the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigils of inciting subversion, in a closely watched test of the national security law imposed by Beijing.

Tiananmen vigil organizers found guilty of inciting subversion in Hong Kong  CNN

Two organisers of Hong Kong's decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted under a controversial national security law.

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