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Hong Kong jails Tiananmen activists
Updated On: 12 March, 2023 07:58 AM IST | Hong Kong | Agencies
The three members of the group were arrested in 2021 during a pro-democracy movement and are now sentenced for 4.5 months
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Elizabeth Tang Yin-ngor, secretary-general of the International Domestic Workers Federation, leaves the Wan Chai police headquarters, in Hong Kong on Saturday, after posting bail following her arrest on March 9, on suspicion of “colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security”. Pic/AFP
Three former organisers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests, were jailed on Saturday, for four-and-a-half months. They failed to provide authorities with information on the group, under a national security law.
Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were arrested in 2021 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement, following massive protests, more than three years ago. They were leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and were found guilty last week. The now-defunct alliance was best known for organising candlelight vigils in Hong Kong on the anniversary of the 1989 China military’s crushing of Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, but it voted to disband in 2021 under the shadow of the Beijing-imposed national security law.
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