US EditionHong Kong uses decades-old speeches to try democracy activists
Two activists face up to 10 years for speeches urging an end to one-party rule amid a 75-day trial highlighting decades-old political dissent under Hong Kong's national security law.
- A Hong Kong court heard defiant anti-Beijing speeches from decades ago against two democracy activists charged with "incitement to subversion", which carries a maximum 10-year jail term.
- Lee Cheuk-yan, 68, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, organized vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown as leaders of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance.
- Prosecutors argued the Alliance's calls to "end one-party rule" in China amounted to subverting the state, while the defendants maintained their pro-democracy stance.
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Tiananmen vigil activists sought end to communist rule in name of democracy, Hong Kong nat. sec trial told
Three Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists had sought the end of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s rule in the name of “so-called democracy,” prosecutors have argued during a high-profile national security trial. From left: Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho, Chow Hang-tung. Photos: HKFP. The court also heard on Tuesday that the prosecution will seek to apply the co-conspirator rule – a legal principle allowing statements by one conspirator to be used ag…
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Hong Kong uses decades-old speeches to try democracy activists
A Hong Kong court heard recordings of defiant anti-Beijing speeches, some dating back nearly three decades, as prosecutors presented their case on Monday against two democracy activists facing national security charges.
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Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 26, 2026 A Hong Kong court heard recordings of defiant anti-Beijing speeches, some dating back nearly three decades, as prosecutors presented their case on Monday against two democracy activists facing national security charges. The Chinese city used to hold annual candlelight vigils to mark Beijing's deadly crackdown on demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, but those events h
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