Hong Kong hits Tiananmen vigil activists with yearslong jail sentences
Activists including Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho Chun-Yan and Chow Hang-tung raise candles during a vigil to mark the anniversary of the crackdown at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, at Victoria Park in Hong Kong in 2019. | REUTERS
Sep 11, 2026
HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court handed three Tiananmen vigil activists jail sentences of between five and seven years on Friday for national security crimes, following a trial that has drawn international condemnation.
Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, Chow Hang-tung, 41, and Albert Ho, 74, have been behind bars since being charged in 2021, and their convictions — under a national security law Beijing imposed on Hong Kong — have been condemned by the United Nations, rights groups and foreign governments.
A court ruled in August that the activists had breached the Chinese constitution by calling for an “end to one-party dictatorship.”
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