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Two organisers of Hong Kong's decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted under a controversial national security law.
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Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil organizers national security case
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A Hong Kong court has convicted and sentenced Tiananmen vigil organizers Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho to prison terms of about five to seven years for inciting subversion under the national security law imposed by Beijing.
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What changed
The convicted Tiananmen vigil organizers—Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho—were sentenced to prison terms of about five to seven years, resolving earlier uncertainty over whether two or three people had been convicted.
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BBC News – World BBC
Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists guilty in national security trial
Sky News – World Sky
Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigil organisers convicted by court
Two organisers of Hong Kong's decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted under a controversial national security law.
