The trio were jailed for four and a half months for not complying with police's request for information. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - Three former members of a Hong Kong group that organised annual vigils to mark China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, were jailed on Saturday for four and a half months for not complying with a national security police request for information.
Every year it drew tens of thousands of people in the largest public commemoration of its kind on Chinese soil. “We will continue doing what we have always done, that is to fight falsehood with truth, indignity with dignity, secrecy with openness, madness with reason, division with solidarity. We will fight these injustices wherever we must, be it on the streets, in the courtroom, or from a prison cell,” said Chow from the dock, in a speech that was interrupted several times by Mr Law.
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