Vice President of the Hong Kong Alliance to Support China’s Patriotic Democratic Movements Chow Hang-tung speaks during a press conference on September 5, 2021 in Hong Kong.
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Vice President of the Hong Kong Alliance to Support China’s Patriotic Democratic Movements Chow Hang-tung speaks during a press conference on September 5, 2021 in Hong Kong.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Three Hong Kong activists have been sentenced after they refused to provide information to the authorities as required by national security policy. They were arrested in 2021 in a crackdown on Hong Kong’s civil society sector following the passage of a wide-ranging national security law.
The three activists now face six months in prison and a fine of nearly $13,000. They say they are not cooperating with the policy because they believe the state has arbitrarily appointed them as foreign agents without providing evidence.
Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong were organizers in the Hong Kong Coalition in Support of China’s now disbanded patriotic democracy movements, an advocacy organization known for its the organization of annual vigils in memory of the victims of the Tiananmen massacre in Beijing, the 1989 crackdown on democracy activists, in which the Chinese military fired on the government their people, killing thousands. The exact death toll is unknown and refers to the massacre that was heavily censored in mainland China.
One of the activists, Chow Hang-tung, was arrested on charges of subversion of national security in 2021 and is currently in prison.
