Tiananmen vigil leaders jailed up to 7 years, as group is fined HK$1.5 million
Por Brian Wong — South China Morning Post – News feed
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Hong Kong’s High Court jails three vigil organisers and fines the disbanded alliance over calls to an end to one-party rule in China
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Brian Wong Published: 10:31am, 11 Sep 2026 Updated: 11:17am, 11 Sep 2026
Three former leaders of the now-disbanded alliance behind Hong Kong’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil have been sentenced to up to seven years and three months in jail under the national security law for inciting subversion by calling for an end to “one-party dictatorship” in mainland China.
Three High Court judges on Friday also imposed a HK$1.5 million fine on the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, bringing the high-profile trial at West Kowloon Court to a close.
The alliance, former chairman Lee Cheuk-yan and former vice-chairwoman Chow Hang-tung were earlier convicted after the judges found they had incited public hatred towards the party by likening Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters to local authorities’ suppression of the 2019 anti-government protests.
Lee and Chow were sentenced to seven years and seven years and three months behind bars, respectively.
Former vice-chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan, who pleaded guilty before the trial began, was sentenced to five years and two months.
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