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Hong Kong Vigil Trial Set to Conclude | Charlotte News
Hong Kong’s judiciary faces a pivotal moment as it prepares to deliver verdicts in the national security trial of activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung—leaders of the now-banned Hong Kong Alliance, whose 30-year candlelight vigils commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Charged with inciting subversion, they deny wrongdoing, arguing their calls for “ending one-party rule” were about accountability, not rebellion. With the annual vigil banned just before Beijing’s sweeping security law, this case symbolizes the erosion of Hong Kong’s freedoms since 1997. Prosecutors frame it as…
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