Court hears final arguments in trial of vigil organizers, hopes for July verdict

A Hong Kong court yesterday concluded final arguments in a national security trial for two former organizers of the city’s vigils remembering the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Judge Alex Lee, one of the three government-vetted judges, said that they hoped to deliver a verdict in July for Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, two former leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. For decades, the now-defunct alliance organized the only large-scale public commemoration in China that attracted tens of thousands annually until the event was banned in 2020 during the first year of the […]