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 (Mar 11) for four-and-a-half months for not complying with a national security police request for information. Chow Hang-tung, 38, a prominent Hong Kong
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.
The now-disbanded Alliance was the main organiser of Hong Kong's Jun 4 candlelight vigil for victims of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown. Every year it drew tens of thousands of people in the largest public commemoration of its kind on Chinese soil. Speaking before sentencing, Chow was defiant, while criticising what she described as the"political" nature of the case, and the decision of the court to withhold key facts.
A defence lawyer, Philip Dykes, said"not knowing the identity" of the alleged foreign government or entity, was highly unusual and made any mitigation difficult given the foreign agent allegation.
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