The Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists convicted in national security trial
Pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho Chun-Yan and Chow Hang-tung raise up candles during a candlelight vigil to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown of pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2019. | REUTERS
Aug 21, 2026
HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court found two pro-democracy activists who organized annual vigils to mark China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown guilty of “incitement to subversion” on Friday.
The closely watched national security case was seen as a bellwether for freedom of expression in the Chinese city.
Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung were leaders of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance, a group that organized annual candlelit vigils to commemorate the victims of Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
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