Hong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers
A Hong Kong court has sentenced three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown to prison terms of about 5 to 7 years. The case was widely seen as a barometer of the city’s freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent. Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho were convicted of inciting subversion earlier this year under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
Lee and Chow were sentenced Friday to terms of 7 years and 7 years and 3 months, respectively. Ho was given a shorter sentence of 5 years and 2 months, partly because of his guilty plea.
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